Dictionary of Art HistoriansFull Name
Clément, Charles
Other Names
Charles Clément
Gender
Date Born
1821
Date Died
1887
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Overview
Géricault scholar, wrote major attribution catalog on Géricault. Lorenz Eitner described as "one of the very best art-historical monographs produced in the nineteenth-century." His granddaughter was the art historian Françoise Henry.
Selected Bibliography
Prud'hon: sa vie, ses Åuvres et sa correspondance. Paris: Didier, 1872; Géricault: étude biographique et critique, avec le Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre du maître. Paris: Didier, 1868, English, edited and enlarged by Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: a Biographical and Critical Study with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Master's Works. New York: Da Capo, 1974.
Sources
Eitner, Lorenz. "Letters to the Editor." Art Bulletin 36 (June 1954): 167-8; Tinterow, Gary. Acknowledgements. "Gericault's Heroic Landscapes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 48 no. 2 (Winter 1990/91): 4.
Archives
- Charles Clément papers, 1838-1887, Getty Research Institute. https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/mlc5om/GETTY_ALMA21126850940001551, 86-A1442.
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