Charles Genty
Charles Genty (17 June 1876, Jargeau, Loiret - 11 January 1956, Paris, France) was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.
Charles Genty
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- Full name
- Charles Marie Jean Jacques Genty.
- Born
- 1876. · Jargeau.
- Died
- 1956. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter, caricaturist, illustrator, printmaker and draftsperson.
- Teachers
- Fernand Cormon.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Charles Genty (17 June 1876, Jargeau, Loiret - 11 January 1956, Paris, France) was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.
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Recorded at birth as Charles Marie Jean Jacques Genty. Born at Jargeau in 1876, died in Paris in 1956.
Training under Fernand Cormon is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Residence is recorded at 18th arrondissement of Paris and rue Nobel. Work by Charles Genty is recorded in the collections of Museum Baron Martin. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Charles Genty - La Baïonnette - L'armée du Kronprinz - 22.7.1915
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Sujet: Genty, Charles (1876-1956) -- Portraits Boxeurs -- France Portraits -- 1870-1913 Référence bibliographique: K262551 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire: Pho20Rol Image de presse
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18th arrondissement of Paris and rue Nobel.
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Jargeau.
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- 1.Acte de décès (avec date et lieu de naissance) à Paris , , vue 1/31.
- 2.Base Léonore
- 3.Charles Genty, dans le Catalogue du "Salon de la Société des amis des arts d'Orléans, 1897
- 4.Dictionnaire des illustrateurs, 1890-1945. Sous la direction de Marcus Osterwalder. Éditions Ides et Calendes, 1992. .
- 5.Jean-Pierre Crespelle, Montmartre vivant, Hachette, 1964, pages 74 et 127.
- 6.République de Montmartre, "Boronali" cent ans plus tard..., 2010
- 7.De tout un peu, Le canular de Boronali, novembre 2013
- 8.Voir « L'armée du Kronprinz » dans La Baïonnette, 22 juillet 1915.
- 9.Laurent Bihl, « Sans pardon » (1914)
- 10.Laurent Bihl, « Rire À la baïonnette !, trembler de peur des baïonnettes »
- 11.[http://www.caricaturesetcaricature.com/article-11653111.html Nelly Feuerhahn, La Première Guerre mondiale et l'image de l'anglais dans "La Baïonnette", in L'étranger dans l'image satirique, "La Lionne" , (pages 159-178), UFR Langues et littératures, Poitiers, 1994]
- 12.Diane Camurat, The American Indian in the Great War : real and imagined, Université Paris VII-Charles V, 1994
- 13.Dictionnaire Bénézit, Gründ, 1999, tome 6, page 21.
- 14.Patrick-F. Barrer, L'histoire du Salon d'automne de 1903 à nos jours, Éditions Arts et Images du Monde, 1992.
- 15.Le Salon des humoristes français à la Rochelle du 4 novembre au 19 novembre 1916, Éditions Le Clairon français, 1916, un exemplaire consultable en la médiathèque Michel-Crépeau, La Rochelle.
- 16.Le Figaro, La tournée des humoristes part de Niort, 14 septembre 1916
- 17.LaM, Musée d'art moderne de Villeneuve-d'Ascq, présentation de l'exposition, 2014
- 18.Gérald Schurr, Les petits maîtres de la peinture, valeur de demain, Les éditions de l'amateur, 1979, tome 4, page 95.
- 19.Paris secret et insolite, L'humour à Montmartre, 2010
- 20., revue L'année balzacienne, , Presses universitaires de France, 2004, pages 497-500.
- 21.Musée Baron-Martin, Pastels et dessins dans les collections
Bibliography printed in the source article · 10
- Édouard André, Montmartre et le Boulevard Éditions Galerie Devambez, 1911.
- Jean Adhémar et Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, tome neuvième, Bibliothèque nationale - Département des estampes, Paris, 1955 (consulter en ligne, ).
- Jean-Paul Crespelle, Montmartre vivant, Hachette, 1964.
- Gérald Schurr, Les petits maîtres de la peinture, valeur de demain, tome 4, Les éditions de l'amateur, 1979.
- Patrick-F. Barrer, L'histoire du Salon d'automne de 1903 à nos jours, Éditions Arts et Images du Monde, 1992.
- Marcus Osterwalder, Dictionnaire des illustrateurs, 1890-1945, Éditions Ides et Calendes, 1992.
- André Roussard, Dictionnaire des artistes à Montmartre, Éditions André Roussard, 1999.
- Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, Gründ, 1999.
- Neil Harris et Teri J. Edelstein, En-guerre : French illustrators and World War I, University of Chicago Library, 2014.
- Nicolas Surlapierre et Jeanne-Bathilde Lacourt, Brouillon Kub : les artistes cubistes et la caricature, 1911-1918, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2014.
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