Philippe Auguste Cazier-Charpentier

Place: Paris

Born: 1813

Death: 1880

Biography:

Auguste Charpentier, also known as Philippe Auguste Cazier-Charpentier, was a French painter born in Paris in 1813 and died in 1880. He was a portraitist for numerous celebrities of the Second French Empire such as George Sand, Mademoiselle Rachel, Narcisse Diaz de la Pena, Alexandre Dumas, and Marie Delaporte. Charpentier was an artist of great renown during the Second French Empire, and his works are held in various museums in France, including the Musée des beaux-arts de Caen, the Musée des beaux-arts de Dole, the Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris, and the Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen.