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Charles Bargue

French painter, lithographer and draftsman

Charles Bargue
Portrait of the Artist,
Born	31st March, France
Died	6th April, France
Education	Jean-Léon Gérôme
Known&#;for	Cours de dessin, a classical drawing course
Movement	Orientalist scenes, historical genre

Charles Bargue was a French painter and lithographer noted for devising an influential drawing course.

Life and career

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His most illustrated work is 'Cours de Dessin’, known as one of the most influential classical drawing course. The course was conceived in collaboration with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Published between and by Goupil & Cie, comprised lithographs printed as individual sheets, the course was intended to guide students from plaster casts, to the study of great master drawings, and finally to drawing from the living model. The Charles Bargue Drawing Course is used by many academies and ateliers which focus on Classical Realism. Among the artists whose work is based on the study of Bargue's plate work are Pablo Picasso^[1] and Vincent van Gogh, who copied the complete set in /, and again in

Bargue was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Bargue worked closely with Gérôme and was influenced by his style, which included Orientalist scenes

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The present oil sketch is remarkable for the brilliant yellow of the man’s jacket, which echoes Gérôme’s distinctive palette and again raises the question of one artist’s influence on the other.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 5 May , lot

Edward T. Wilson, Fund for Fine Arts, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland

Wendy Goldsmith Ltd., London,

Private collection, California, USA, (acquired from the above)

Exhibited

New York,Dahesh Museum of Art, Charle Bargue: The Art of Drawing, November 25, - February 8, , Paris, ACR Edition, , no. 20

Literature

Gerald M. Ackerman, with the collaboration of Graydon Parrish, Charles Bargue

with the collaboration of Jean-Leon Gérôme, Drawing Course, ACR edition, , no. 20B, p.

Catalogue note

This étude, or study, is one of a series of single-figure paintings by Charles Bargue, and one of many of his portraits that feature a figure seen from the back. Bargue may have been inspired to adopt this unusual view by his colleague Jean-Léon Gérôme (), with whom he worked for a number of years both in the studio and as the co-author of one of the nineteenth-century’s most popular and effective drawing manuals, the Cours de dessin, published by Goupil & Cie. between a