Charles-François Grenier De Lacroix
Imitative French marine and landscape painter
Charles Francois Grenier de Lacroix, called Charles Francois Lacroix de Marseille, was a French painter. Charles François Lacroix of Marseille was a landscape and marine painter, in the style of Claude Joseph Vernet, Jean-Joseph Kapeller (1702-1790) and Henry of Arles. He was a pupil and imitator of Joseph Vernet, and stayed in Rome in 1754. From 1776, he exhibited with great success and spent a good part of his life between Italy and Provence. In 1780, he published an ad to welcome students in his studio in Paris. Jean-Jacques Le Veau and Noël Le Mire engraved some of his paintings.
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Artworks by this artist
- A Mediterranean harbour scene with fishermen unloading their boats 1777
- Mediterranean Landscape
- Fishing At The Edge Of A River With A Waterfall, Below A Castle 1778
- Fishing Scene In A Harbor 1777
- Harbor Scene at Sunset (Vue d’un Port)@Landscape
- Fishermen at the edge of a rocky basin, a waterfall and a castle in the background 1759
- An Italian Port Scene 1770
- An Italian landscape with figures 1745
- A fisherman and family beneath a bridge
- Südliche Küstenlandschaft am Morgen 1750
- A couple fishing at the base of a waterfall, with ruins above
- Mediterranean coastal scene with a couple dancing under an overhanging rock, a boat nearby
- A capriccio with ancient monuments, including the Triumphal Arch of Orange, the aqueduct of Fréjus and the Mauseoleum of Glanum 1779