Charles Paul Renouard
Chronicled era through observant illustrations
A talented and observant illustrator, Charles-Paul Renouard chronicled his times in illustrations in the pages of newspapers and magazines published in Paris and London, albums of etchings and lithographs and in paintings. Born in a village in France’s Loire Valley, he moved to Paris at the age of fourteen to work as a house painter. Renouard eventually entered the studio of Isidore Pils (1813 or 1815-1875) at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1868. With Pils he worked on the decoration of the new Paris Opera and is credited with creating frescoes for the ceiling. He made his Salon debut in 1877 with drawings of actors. His talent as an illustrator was widely praised, and starting in 1875 his work was used by such journals as Paris-illustrée, L’Illustration, le Figaro illustré and La Vie moderne.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Isidore Pils Master
- Jacques Touchet Student
Artworks by this artist
- Seamstress altering a child’s ballet costume
- Robert Green Ingersoll fourth quarter 19th century
- Inauguration de L’Exposition Internationale de Liege, en 1905 1905
- L’Eposition universelle vue de Meudon 1900
- Fin du trottoir roulant 1900
- Fin des travaux dans le Grand Palais 1900
- Fin du jour. (repos des ouvriers electriciens de la Tour Eiffel.) 1900
- L’escalier de la classe(The class staircase)@Illustration
- Rooftops of the Administration Building 1881
- Vue prise de la passerelle des cuisines de la Tour Eiffel 1900
- Construction des deux Palais 1900
- Standing Woman c. 1900
- Trottoir roulant 1900
- La loge directoriale a l’Opera (The manager’s box at the Opera)@Illustration
- Dejeuner en plaein air aux Indes neerlandaises 1900
- Thomas Sexton (1848-1896), William O’Brien (1852-1928), Dr Charles Keane Deane Tanner (1849-1901), Timothy Michael Healy (1855-1931) and Justin McCarthy, (1830-1912), Nationalist M.P.s (left to right)@Drawings
- Avant le Ballet 1898
- A Drury-Lane; Avant de paraitre (At Drury Lane; Before the appearance) 1906
- Croquis d’exotiques 1900
- Pluie d’orage. (Jardin du Trocadero.) 1900