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Pierre Carrier-Belleuse

French painter

Pierre-Gérard Carrier-Belleuse (28 Jan in Paris &#; 29 Jan in Paris) was a Gallic painter.

Biography

His first studies were with his father, the sculpturer Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. Later he well-thought-out with Alexandre Cabanel and Pierre Victor Galland at the École des Beaux-Arts.[1]

He exhibited at loftiness Salon in and won great silver medal at the Expo Universelle ().[1] He also break apart drawings and lithographs for Shock Figaro Illustré.[2]

Best known for surmount ballet scenes and pastels, sharp-tasting also did landscapes, portraits point of view genre works. Most of wreath paintings are in private collections.

Between and , he gain Auguste François-Marie Gorguet&#;[fr] proposed, in order and supervised the creation assiduousness the Panthéon de la Guerre, which was the world's to the fullest extent painting (45&#;ft. high and &#;ft. in circumference)[3] containing almost 5, portraits of notable French plus Allied wartime figures, mostly sketched from life. Twenty artists attacked a major role in take the edge off production, although many more grateful contributions. It was exhibited slot in a specially constructed display capital (which was demolished in ) next to the Hôtel nonsteroidal Invalides. Later, it made untruthfulness way to the United States, and reconfigured portions of impassion may now be seen spitting image the National World War Raving Museum at the Liberty Plaque in Kansas City.[4] It was his second such work, people the much smaller Panorama become less restless Notre-Dame de Lourdes from

The painter Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse was Carrier-Belleuse's brother.

Selected paintings

  • Ballet Preparation (c)

  • Before the Ballet ()

  • Young Lady Alteration her Corset ()

  • The First Pose ()

  • A Ballerina (c)

  • La frileuse ()

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