Charles Pensée

Charles François Joseph Pensée (11 August 1799[1] - 11 July 1871[2]) was a French painter and illustrator. A street in Épinal is named after him.[3]

Life

He was born in Épinal to Jean-François Pensée, deputy head of the administration of the department of Vosges, and Marie-Magdelaine Collin and had two sisters, Thérèse-Amélie and Sophie.[4] Their father died while serving as a huissier when Charles was aged fourteen and he was raised by his mother. He abandoned his studies and initially worked for his uncle Henri Joseph Hogard, a geometrical surveyor, who gave him his first training in drawing, then for Monsieur Goury, the Corps des ponts et chaussées' chief engineer for Vosges department.[5] · [6]

When Goury resigned, Pensée started collaborated with the French chief engineer Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois and took part in the collecting Jollois carried out for the Antiquités remarquables du département des Vosges[7] He contributed several illustrations of the Grand archaeological site.[8]

When Jollois changed jobs in 1822 Pensée followed him to Orléans.[7] Wishing to work as a drawing tutor there, he went to Paris to train in Monsieur Hubert's studio, notably in watercolour.[9] On returning to Orléans he taught drawing in public establishments and as a private tutor.[7] At the lycée, during the 1864–1865 school year, one of his pupils was Paul Gauguin, as shown by Swiss chalet beside the Loire, a drawing sold at auction on 16 June 2019 at the château d'Artigny.[10] Pensée died at Orléans and his funeral occurred there on 13 July 1871.[5] He is buried in the grand cimetière d'Orléans.[11]

Works

Several of his drawings show the banks of the river Loire and Lorraine. He particularly portrayed architectural views. The musée de la Marine de Loire in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire (Loiret) has many prints by him, as does the musée Crozatier. The bibliothèque multimédia intercommunale d'Épinal has a collection of his drawings showing the park at the château d'Épinal, owned by Monsieur Doublat.

Charles Pensée notably portrayed monuments or landscapes in:[12]

References

  1. ^ (in French) Archives départementales des Vosges, état-civil numérisé de la commune d'Épinal, births, year VII, p. 79, act of 24 thermidor an VII.
  2. ^ (in French) Archives départementales du Loiret, état-civil d'Orléans, décès de l'année 1871, acte no. 1641.
  3. ^ (in French) Jean Bossu (1976). "Rue Boulay de la Meurthe". Chronique des rues d'Épinal. Vol. 1. Épinal: Jeune chambre économique. pp. 42–45..
  4. ^ (in French) M. Jouvellier, 'Communication', Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais, volume 24, no. 240, 1940, p. 36.
  5. ^ a b Collectif 1872, p. V
  6. ^ Deschamps 1990, p. 115
  7. ^ a b c Deschamps 1990, p. 116
  8. ^ (in French) "Illustrations du site archéologique de Grand faites par Charles Pensée".
  9. ^ Collectif 1872, p. V and VI.
  10. ^ Vente Rouillac
  11. ^ Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs
  12. ^ (in French) Catherine Thion, La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin, des siècles d'histoire, Ville de La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin, 2007 ISBN 9782952901703.
  13. ^ (in French) Guy Briolet, Martine Dumortier, Françoise Lécuyer-Champagne, Jean-Pierre Pierre-Ivan, Maïté Vallès-Bled (June 1992). L'Eure-et-Loir et les peintres. Chartres: Jean Legué. p. 59. ISBN 9782950074539.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link).
  14. ^ (in French) Éric Moinet (1997). Le Temps des passions. Collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. Orléans: musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans. p. n°291. ISBN 2-910173-07-0.
  15. ^ (in French) Dominique Brême et Mehdi Korchane (2022). Dessins français du musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans. Le Trait et l’Ombre. Orléans: musée des Beaux-Arts. p. n°149. ISBN 9 788836 651320.
  16. ^ (in French) Dominique Brême et Mehdi Korchane (2022). Dessins français du musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans. Le Trait et l’Ombre. Orléans: musée des Beaux-Arts. p. n°150. ISBN 9 788836 651320.
  17. ^ (in French) Dominique Brême et Mehdi Korchane (2022). Dessins français du musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans. Le Trait et l’Ombre. Orléans: musée des Beaux-Arts. p. n°151. ISBN 9 788836 651320.
  18. ^ LV 120 P/R and online.
  19. ^ (in French) Charles-François Vergnaud-Romagnési, Album du département du Loiret, lithographies de Romagnesi d'après Charles Pensée, Orléans, Guyot aîné éd., 1826.

Bibliography (in French)

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