Charles Bargue

Charles Bargue (c. 1826/1827 – April 6, 1883) was a French painter and lithographer noted for
devising an influential drawing course.
 Charles Bargue

Portrait of the Artist, 1850-1853

Born c. 1826/1827
France

Died April 6, 1883

France

Education Jean-Léon Gérôme

Known for Cours de dessin, a classical drawing course

Movement Orientalist scenes, historical genre

Life and career

The Chess Game, by Charles Bargue

He is mostly remembered for his Cours de dessin, one of the most influential classical drawing
courses conceived in collaboration with Jean-Léon Gérôme. The course, published between
1866 and 1871 by Goupil & Cie, comprised 197 lithographs printed as individual sheets, was to
guide students from plaster casts to the study of great master drawings and finally to drawing
from the living model. The Charles Bargue Drawing Course is used by many academies and
ateliers which focus on Classical Realism. Among the artists whose work is based on the study
of Bargue's plate work are Pablo Picasso[1] and Vincent van Gogh, who copied the complete set
in 1880/1881, and (at least a part of it) again in 1890.

Bargue was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Bargue worked closely with Gérôme and was
influenced by his style, which included Orientalist scenes and historical genre. Bargue's last
painting was completed by Gérôme and is now conserved in the Malden Public Library, Malden,
Massachusetts, USA. He travelled extensively through North Africa, and the Balkans, during
which time he executed many portraits of local people with meticulous detail.

Work

Publication

Charles Bargue with the collaboration of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Charles Bargue Drawing Course,
1866

Paintings
The Sentinel, 1872

A Bashi-Bazouk, 1875
Head of Young man, (Study) ca. 1876

The Albanian Sentinel, 1876

The Albanian Sentinel in Cairo, 1877

See also

List of Orientalist artists

Orientalism

References

1. Glueck, Grace. "In the Days When Artists Were Taught How to Draw" (https://www.nytimes.com/2003/1
2/26/books/art-review-in-the-days-when-artists-were-taught-how-to-draw.html) . The New York Times.
Retrieved 27 May 2015.

Ackerman, Gerald M., (ed.) & Parrish, Graydon: Charles Bargue avec le concours de Jean-Léon
Gérôme: Cours de dessin, French edition, 2003. ISBN 2-86770-165-1

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charles Bargue.

Artencyclopedia.com page on Bargue (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bargue_charles.

html)

The art of drawing: Dahesh Museum of Art : exhibition (https://web.archive.org/web/20060908

184038/http://www.daheshmuseum.org/about/press/pdf/BargueThumbnails.pdf)
 Works by Charles Bargue (http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=1200) at the
Art Renewal Center

Goupil Museum [1] (http://www.culture.gouv.fr/GOUPIL/FILES/)

Charles Bargue Drawing Course [2] (https://archive.org/details/C.BargueDrawingCourse)

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