Auguste Charpentier

Auguste Charpentier (1813–1880) was a French painter. He attained fame under the Second French Empire as a portraitist for numerous celebrities of the time such as George Sand, Mademoiselle Rachel, Narcisse Diaz de la Pena, Alexandre Dumas, and Marie Delaporte.

Partial list of works



 * Musée des beaux-arts de Caen : Pâtre italien (lost work), oil on canvas
 * Musée des beaux-arts de Caen : Courtisane, oil on canvas
 * Musée des beaux-arts de Dole : Portrait de Joseph Lyard, oil on canvas
 * Grand'Combe-Châteleu, Saint-Joseph Church : Sainte-Madeleine, oil on canvas
 * Paris, Saint-Roch Church, ten paintings classified as historical monuments:
 * Les Funérailles, 1833, oil on canvas
 * La Résurrection, oil on canvas
 * Les Saintes Femmes au sépulcre, oil on canvas
 * La Loi divine, oil on canvas
 * L'Innocence, oil on canvas
 * L'Extrême-onction, oil on canvas
 * La Force, oil on canvas
 * La Sagesse, oil on canvas
 * La Charité, oil on canvas
 * La Religion, oil on canvas
 * Paris, musée de la vie romantique : Portrait de George Sand, 1838,  George Sand et ses amis à Nohan
 * Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen : Portrait de Bocage, artiste dramatique, before 1862,
 * Musée de Vendôme : ''Portrait de Charles Mansui
 * Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon : Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (1808–1878), 1849, oil on canvas
 * Musée des beaux-arts de Bernay, Portrait de Pierre-Victorien Lottin de Laval, oil on canvas