Known for sculpture Parents Gabriel-Vital Dubray | Spouse(s) Albert Besnard | |
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Born 25 April 1854 ( 1854-04-25 ) Paris Died 15 March 1931, Paris, France Children Philippe Besnard, Robert Besnard | ||
Charlotte Gabrielle Dubray, or Charlotte Besnard, (25 April 1854 Paris – 15 March 1931 Paris) was a French sculptor.
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Life
She was the daughter of the sculptor Vital Gabriel Dubray. By her mother, she was the granddaughter of Antoine Cecconi.
She was a student of Fanny Dubois-Davesne, and the Italian Vincenzo Consani. She debuted at the Salon of 1869, with a terracotta bust, "Giovanina" (No. 3403). At the fall of the Second Empire, she took refuge with her family in Italy in Florence and then crossed the Channel and settled in London. Here she used her talents as a portrait and modeled many British figures, and she exhibited sculptures at the Royal Academy, including the bust of Princess Louise of Wales as well as number of children of the English aristocracy.
Initiated in the art by his father, she presented at the Paris Salon in 1874 marble bust "Jeune fellah du Caire." In 1875, she produced a gilded bronze bust titled "Head Study," in the style of the sixteenth century Florence. In 1876, she exhibited a plaster statue of "Jephthah's Daughter crying in the mountains," a bronze bust and a Neapolitan. In 1877, she exhibited "La Coquette," a terracotta bust, and a bronze portrait of "Mr. B."
In 1879, she married the painter Albert Besnard, and continued to exhibit at the National Society of Fine Arts inspired works of the simple joys of family life and embarked on the decorative arts and fire arts through faces and figures of multicolored sandstone. She will collaborate for certain works with the ceramist Albert Dammouse. Charlotte Besnard regularly presented her sculptures at Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Tuileries and also participated in the Belgian salons Les XX and the La Libre Esthétique.
She appears, surrounded by her children, in the painting, "Albert Besnard A Family in the living room of the villa Besnard in Talloires" (painting exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay). Her portrait by Albert Besnard is exhibited at the Carnavalet Museum in Paris.
In 1895, she was appointed member of the National Society of Fine Arts. Their youngest son John, frail child with bone tuberculosis, was treated and cured in Berck in Cazin-Perrochaud Institute by Dr. Francois Calot (1861–1911): in thanks, the Besnard decorated the chapel hospital (monument) during a family holiday to accompany the treatment of his disease.
In 1900, she won the silver medal at the Paris Salon.
In 1901 she exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, and then from 1923 to 1925 at the Salon des Tuileries.