Clément, Charles

Date born: 1821

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Date died: 1887

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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.

Home Country: France

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.

Bibliography: Prud'hon: sa vie, ses œuvres 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.

Subject's name: Charles Clément