Charles Le Roux
Illustration — Charles Le Roux • Illustration — Paysage près de Narbonne ("Landscape near Narbonne"), by Charles Le Roux. Marie-Guillaume Charles Le Roux (1814–1895) was a landscape painter of the Barbizon school. He was born and died in Nantes, and is noted for his paintings of the Loire and its surroundings.
Also recorded as Maria Guillaume Charles Leroux · Charles The Elder Le Roux · Charles Leroux the Elder · Maria Guillaume Charles Le Roux
Charles Le Roux
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- Born
- Charles Le Roux was born on 25 April 1814. · Nantes.
- Died
- Charles Le Roux died on 27 February 1895. · Nantes.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter, politician, artist and draftsperson.
- Fields
- visual arts.
- Education
- lycée Georges-Clemenceau.
- Teachers
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.
- Honours
- Officer of the Legion of Honour and Officier de l'Instruction publique.
- Languages
- French.
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He was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and a friend of Théodore Rousseau and Gustave Dore. Having inherited a fortune, he did not have to sell his works. Museums holding works by Le Roux include the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. His painting Edge of the Woods; Cherry Trees in Autumn, which was painted in the last year (1895) of the artist's life, was exhibited in the Exposition Universelle of 1900, and is in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay.
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Charles Le Roux appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a painter (25 April 1814 – 27 February 1895). Charles Le Roux was born on 25 April 1814 and died on 27 February 1895. Charles Le Roux was born in Nantes, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Nantes (Loire Atlantique). Charles Le Roux died in Nantes, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Nantes (Loire Atlantique).
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Charles Le Roux was born in Nantes.
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- 1."Le peintre Charles Le Roux" par G. Ferronnière in Annales de la Société Académique de Nantes 1903 (ADLA Per98) p. 233.
- 2.Rosenblum, Robert (1989). Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. p. 110.
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