Charles Gauthier

Charles Gauthier studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under François Jouffroy is recorded. Louis Breitel is recorded as having studied under Charles Gauthier. The recorded working language is French. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Prix de Rome.

Gauthier was born in Chauvirey-le-Châtel. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on 6 April 1854, where he studied under François Jouffroy. He won a silver medal at the 1861 Prix de Rome and was awarded medals in 1865, 1866 and 1869. He exhibited at the Salon between 1859 and 1882. He died in Paris. Gauthier's allegorical statue entitled Moderation was placed in the foyer of the Paris Opera House in 1873. A plaster model for the statue exists in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay. His Young Poacher (Fr. Jeune braconnier) is on display in the grounds of the Château de Fontainebleau.

The statue of Sergent Blandan (Jean Pierre Hippolyte Blandan), French army hero of Algeria, was commissioned from Gauthier following a public competition. The statue once stood in Boufarik, but following Algerian independence it was moved to France in 1963, where it was placed in the courtyard of a barracks in Nancy. In 1990, it was moved to Rue du Sergent Blandan in Nancy.

• Charlemagne. Bronze. Collegiate church of St-Quentin. • Our Lady of Humility. Plaster. Church at Argenteuil. • St Matthew. Stone. Church of the Trinity. • Young Poacher. 1872. Marble. Château de Fontainebleau. • Moderation. 1873. Paris Opera House. • Andromeda. 1875. Marble. Musée d'Orsay. • Cleopatra. 1880. Plaster. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. • Sergent Blandan. c. 1886–87. Rue Sergent Blandan, Nancy.