CHARPENTIER GALLERY
CHARPENTIER GALLERY
In 1802, the Count d'Orglandes built a mansion at 76 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honore in the 8th arrondissement of Paris (almost opposite the Palais de l'Elysee). In 1821 he sold it to Colonel d'Andlau d'Orvillers. At an unknown date, the hotel becomes the property of the Mouthier-Dehayin family. The collector Jean Charpentier succeeds this family, and little by little, the public is allowed to visit the collections in a gallery arranged in the courtyard. Since 1924 an exhibition on Géricault is organized by Jean Charpentier.
After the dissolution of the company Georges Petit Galleries, prestigious auctions are held in the Hotel Jean Charpentier. Other exhibitions are held in these places as the first Salon of New Realities. In 1941, a posthumous exhibition of the works of Émile Bernard is proposed to the Parisian public. In 1948 Raymond Nacenta becomes owner of the gallery, and new exhibitions and memorable auctions are organized.
At the beginning of the 1960s, the City of Paris granted the Parisian auctioneers advantageous conditions for renting the Palais Gallièra, which became the fashionable place for prestigious art exhibitions. Subsequently, the former premises of the Charpentier gallery were the Paris headquarters of the company Fives-Lille, which showed its mastery of the use of steel by installing instead of the gallery particularly standardized offices. At the end of the 1980s, the rooms on rue du Faubourg were rented to Pierre Cardin, who set up a restaurant there.
Established in Paris since 1967, the auction company Sotheby's chose in 1988 this building to install its offices in Paris.
Exhibitions
From 1942 to 1965 the Galerie Charpentier had a rather ambitious and innovative exhibition policy.
List of exhibitions giving rise to the publication of a catalogue:
1942-1943, Flowers and Fruits since Romanticism
1943 Autumn
1943 Parisian scenes and figures
1944 Romantic and contemporary watercolor
1944 Family life
1945 The Watercolor
1945 Freshwater Landscapes
1945 Landscapes of France
1945 French portraits
1946 100 masterpieces by the painters of the Paris School
1946 The Silent Life
1947 Beauties of Provence
1947 Landscapes of Italy
1947 K.X. Roussel
1948 Dunoyer de Segonzac
1948-1949 Dance and Entertainment
1950 Portraits of women
1952 Salon of Tuileries
1953 French School Nude Figures
1954 Bread and wine
1954 Pleasures of the countryside
1954 School of Paris
1955 Discover
1955 School of Paris
1956 The work of Vlaminck
1957 School of Paris
1957 100 masterpieces of French Art
1958 School of Paris
1958 100 paintings by Modigliani
1959 100 paintings of Utrillo
1960 Private collections of Bonnard à de Staël
1960 Gauguin
1960 Dunoyer de Segonzac (50 years of painting)
1961 Douanier Rousseau
1961 100 paintings by Jacques Villon
1962 French celebrities
1963 Jardins de France
1963 Treasures of the Bulgarian Museums
1964 Surrealism
1964 The Gemmals of Pablo Picasso
1965 Gardens and Flowers
Jeanne Modigliani, under the portrait of her mother, at the Charpentier Gallery, Paris, May 1958
