Alexandre Charpentier
Biography
Alexandre Charpentier is a Sculpteur and
cabinetmaker French born with
Paris in 1856 and deceased with Neuilly in 1909. Wire of workman, it enters as apprentice at a jeweller then in an engraver of Médaille S where it is familiarized with the sculpture and the Bas-relief. From 1871 to 1876 he is pupil at the school of the Art schools in the workshop of engraving of Ponscarme. He carries out a low-relief
Tireur of arc exposed to the Living room of 1879 and bought by
Alexandre Dumas. Friend of
Constantin Meunier, Charpentier attends Bohemian artistic and literary one. he carries out the decoration carved of the cabaret
the Black Cat .
Work
In 1883, its
Young mother nursing a child is bought by the State which orders the marble of it to him.
He will be the author of many medals of various personalities. Allured since always by decorative arts it exposes in 1896 rue Caumartin in Paris of the “objects intended to be useful, the usual objects, current utility which are works of art”.
It opens several workshops of cabinet work, conceives many whole of Mobilier, obtains the Grand Prix with the World Fair of Paris of 1900. It takes part in the exemplary decoration of the
Villa Majorelle with
Nancy, as well as a dining room for Adrien Bénard, banker and promoter of the Métropolitain, for its villa of Champrosay. This unit is preserved at the Musée of Orsay in Paris.
Alexandre Charpentier is renovating decorative arts, one of the French Masters of the
Art nouveau.
Some works preserved in France
- Louis Welden Hawkins (1849-1910) painter , bronze Mask, 1893, Museum of Orsay to Paris.
- Homage to Emile Zola , 1898, medal out of bronze, Museum of Orsay.
- Saint-Sebastien , 1897, plate out of bronze, Museum of Orsay.
- Free Esthetics , 1895, medal out of bronze, Museum of Orsay.
- Bust of Linette Mercy-Jean , 1908, terra cotta.
- Fountain - Wash-hand basin, the Poem of water , 1894, tin and wood of drowning, Paris, museum of the Petit Palais.
- Desk with music , 1901, Paris, Museum of decorative Arts.