Charles Fouqueray

Charles Dominique Fouqueray (April 23rd 1869, Mans - March 28th 1956) is a painter of history, illustrator, poster artist and decorator French.

Wire of an officer of marine, he is the pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and François Cormon. In 1887, it exposes to the Salon of the French artists. Attracted by the voyages and the colonies which inspired its most famous books to him, it obtains the price Rosa Bonheur in 1909, the gold medal for the Gravure in 1920 and the Prix Indo-China in 1914. But the war retains it in Europe and it can leave only in 1921. Talented illustrator of many books, it is present in many museums in France and the world. He is official painter of the ministry for the Navy and the Musée of the army. He decorated the town hall with Niort and created the ornamental panels of the colonial Exposition of Marseilles in 1922, like several stamps. He receives many official orders, including one for the hotel of the Emperor of Annam to Paris, avenue of Lamballe.

Quotation

“ the first thing which one notices when work of Charles Fouqueray is studied, it is the place which it gives to his characters ”. Andre Pallois, French Painters and Indochinese , 1997, p. 108.

Publications

the Sea front , the De luxe edition, Paris, 1918

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