Charles Bargue was a French painter and lithographer noted for devising an influential drawing course.
Life and career
His most illustrated work is 'Cours de Dessin’, known as one of the most influential classical drawing courses. The course was conceived in collaboration with
Jean-Léon Gérôme
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. Published between 1866 and 1876 by
Goupil & Cie, comprised 197
lithograph
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s printed as individual sheets, the course was intended to guide students from plaster casts, to the study of great master drawings, and finally to drawing from the living model. The Charles Bargue Drawing Course is used by many academies and ateliers which focus on
Classical Realism. Among the artists whose work is based on the study of Bargue's plate work are
Pablo Picasso
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and
Vincent van Gogh
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, who copied the complete set in 1880/1881, and again in 1890.
Bargue was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Bargue worked closely with Gérôme and was influenced by his style, which included Orientalist scenes and historical genre. Bargue's last painting was completed by Gérôme and is now conserved in the Malden Public Library,
Malden, Massachusetts
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History
Malden is a hilly woodland area no ...
, USA. He travelled extensively through North Africa, and the Balkans, during which time he executed many portraits of local people with meticulous detail.
Charles Bargue Drawing Course
This drawing course has been resurrected in a lithography studio. The plates are available from the original drawing course as they were proposed to academies in 1875. This set of lithographs is adopted by international academies of classical art.
Work
Publication
* Charles Bargue with the collaboration of Jean-Léon Gérôme, ''Charles Bargue Drawing Course,'' 1866
Paintings
File:Charles Bargue - The Sentinel - 1872.jpg, ''The Sentinel,'' 1872
File:A Bashi-Bazouk MET DT240201.jpg, ''A Bashi-Bazouk,'' 1875
File:Head of Young man. Study (Charles Bargue) - Nationalmuseum - 18601.tif, ''Head of Young man,'' (Study) ca. 1876
File:La Sentinelle albanaise 1860.jpg, ''The Albanian Sentinel,'' 1876
File:Charles Bargue – La sentinelle albanaise en Caire, 1877.jpg, ''The Albanian Sentinel in Cairo, 1877
See also
*
List of Orientalist artists
This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalism#Orientalist art, Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subj ...
*
Orientalism
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References
* Ackerman, Gerald M., (ed.) &
Parrish, Graydon: ''Charles Bargue avec le concours de Jean-Léon Gérôme: Cours de dessin'', French edition, 2003.
External links
Artencyclopedia.com page on Bargue* ''The art of drawing'':
Dahesh Museum of Artbr>
: exhibition*
* National Gallery of Ar
* Charles Bargue Drawing Cours
* Reproduction of plates from the Charles Bargue Drawing Course https://fineartlithography.com/en/
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1820s births
1883 deaths
19th-century French painters
French art educators
Academic art
French lithographers
French male painters
Orientalism
French Orientalist painters
19th-century French male artists