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 (20 total)
- Trottoir roulant 1900
- Vue prise de la passerelle des cuisines de la Tour Eiffel 1900
- Fin des travaux dans le Grand Palais 1900
- Fin du jour. (repos des ouvriers electriciens de la Tour Eiffel.) 1900
- Seamstress altering a child’s ballet costume
- A Drury-Lane; Avant de paraitre (At Drury Lane; Before the appearance) 1906
- Rooftops of the Administration Building 1881
- Robert Green Ingersoll fourth quarter 19th century
- Construction des deux Palais 1900
- Avant le Ballet 1898
- L’escalier de la classe(The class staircase)@Illustration
- Standing Woman c. 1900
- Dejeuner en plaein air aux Indes neerlandaises 1900
- L’Eposition universelle vue de Meudon 1900
- Fin du trottoir roulant 1900
- Croquis d’exotiques 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
- La loge directoriale a l’Opera (The manager’s box at the Opera)@Illustration
- Pluie d’orage. (Jardin du Trocadero.) 1900
- Inauguration de L’Exposition Internationale de Liege, en 1905 1905