Charles Gleyre
(1806–1874) Swiss artist (1806-1874)
Charles Gleyre (Switzerland, 1806–1874) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Charles Gleyre belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Charles Gleyre was born in Chevilly and died in Palais Bourbon. The teachers included Louis Hersent and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Charles Gleyre worked in Paris. Wikidata associates Charles Gleyre with Orientalist painting. The students included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and James McNeill Whistler.
One of the best-known works is ‘Lost Illusions’. The works belong mainly to the genres history painting and religious painting. The catalogue has 20 works by Charles Gleyre with free images. The dated works span the years 1840–1868. Works by Charles Gleyre are held by several collections, among them Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Walters Art Museum, Département des peintures du Louvre, and Musée de l'Histoire de France. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include François Diday, August von Bayer, Petrus van Schendel, Alexandre Hesse, and Pierre François Eugène Giraud.