Who is Hippolyte de la Charlerie?

Hippolyte de la Charlerie (1827–1869) was a Belgian painter and illustrator.

De la Charlerie was born in Mons. He studied art at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (1843–51) and in imitation of Théodore Baron. He was a cofounder of the Atelier Saint-Luc at Brussels, but spent much of his epoch in Paris, where he normal himself as an illustrator for collectors’ editions of books. Among his engravings are scenes of the French Revolution, which he as well as created for La Révolution Française (1862) by M.J.G.D Armengaud.

He is also noted for a painting of the 17th-century composer and musician Jean-Baptiste Lully which was skillfully received at the Salon of Paris in 1869. Lully is shown as a guy of on twelve years outmoded playing his violin in the kitchen of the Duchesse de Montpensier, his patroness.

In 1868, de la Charlerie was one of the founding members of the avant-gardist Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, but died unaided a year later in Ixelles, a in style suburb of Brussels favored by artists. When some of his smaller canvases were share of a retrospective exhibition of Belgian art in 1905, Octave Maus writing in L’Art Moderne praised him among unjustly neglected painters whose works evidenced lightheartedness and sincerity, the latter mood being one of the Société’s ideals. His portraits have been described as having an “austere simplicity,” using dark and Cool tonalities that draw attention to the model’s immobility.

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