Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin

Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin (1797 in Bourges – 1883 in Paris) was a French painter, noted for his Orientalist works.

Life and career

The son of a couple of freeholders, Jean Callande and Gabrielle Lemonnier, Charles-Émile Callande de Champmartin began exhibiting at the Salon in 1819. He owes his reputation to his many portraits and religious paintings, treated with a brush of romantic sensitivity. He was one of the early painters to travel to the Middle East and produce paintings with Orientalist themes. His is known for his numerous portraits, historical and religious paintings and Orientalist works, all of which were very popular during his lifetime.

He was a friend and pupil of Eugène Delacroix, of whom he made a portrait (1840), now preserved in Paris at the Musée Carnavalet. A portrait of Eugène Sue is in the Magnin museum in Dijon with three other paintings by the same author. Five paintings are at the Louvre Museum in Paris and four others at the National Museum of the Castles of Versailles and Trianon, including a portrait of Marshal Clausel (1835).

Select list of paintings

Massacre of the Janissaries, 1827 (Rochefort Museum, Rochefort, France)

Portrait of Eugene Sue, oil on canvas

The Sacrifice of Abraham

Dog keeping a dead rabbit

Portrait of lady in flower cap

Portrait of Juliette Drouet as a woman of Smyrna, 1827.

Portrait of Paul-Émile Botta, orientalist, 1840, oil on canvas, now in the Louvre

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