Charles-Raphaël Maréchal (1818–1888) was a French painter of the nineteenth century. Maréchal was the son of the glass painter

Charles-Laurent Maréchal Self-portrait on glass Window Charles-Laurent Maréchal (27 January 1801 – 17 January 1887) was a French painter. Biography Maréchal was born of poor parents at Metz in 1801.Maréchal ogeneanet.org/ref> He was brought up as a saddler, but h ...

. Like his father, he was born in

Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand ...

, in 1881. He was trained in charcoal technique from a young age by his father and pointed toward an artistic career. He exhibited several times at the Salon (the official art exhibition of the prestigious

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in Paris), including in 1868. In 1872, the City of Metz bought the immense charcoal work ''Prayer In The Wilderness'', which Maréchal had produced for the Metz Exposition of 1861. Interested in chemistry, he is credited as co-inventor (with Cyprien Tessié du Motay) of the

collotype Collotype is a gelatin-based photographic printing process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855 to print images in a wide variety of tones without the need for halftone screens. The majority of collotypes were produced between the 1870s and 1 ...

process. Maréchal and du Motay's work won a gold medal at the

Paris Exposition of 1867 The International Exposition of 1867 (french: Exposition universelle 'art et d'industriede 1867), was the List of world expositions, second world's fair to be held in Paris, from 1 April to 3 November 1867. A number of nations were represente ...

. Together, Maréchal and du Motay were awarded several patents for processes such as printing on glass windows, producing oxygen for public lighting, and so forth. Maréchal died in Paris on 8 April 1888.

Works in the Louvre collection

Maréchal's works in the collection of the

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in Paris are: *"The Emperor and Empress, In Their Wisdom and Might, Demonstrate the Grand Designs That Will Cover the Reign of Napoleon III in Glory" (oil on canvas) *"Presentation of the Tuileries design to Catherine de Medici" (oil on canvas) *"Presentation to Henry IV of the waterfront gallery" (oil on canvas) *"Presentation to Louis XIV of the Louvre colonnade" (oil on canvas) *"Presentation to Francis I of the original draft of the Louvre" (oil on canvas)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maréchal, Charles-Raphaël 1818 births 1888 deaths French romantic painters Metz School