Claude Charles
Claude Charles (1661–1747) was a French historical and decorative painter.
Charles was born at Nancy in 1661. He studied under Gérard, and became herald at arms and painter to Leopold, Duke of Lorraine. He painted numerous pictures for the churches of Nancy, and died in that city.
Paintings[]
- st. Peter, Toul cathedral,
- Nivard, Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Hautvillers.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Charles, Claude". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
Categories:
- 1661 births
- 1747 deaths
- People from Nancy, France
- 17th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 18th-century French painters
- French painter, 17th-century birth stubs