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Biography of Charles Amable Lenoir

French Academic Classical artist
born 22 October 1860 - died 1926

Lenoir was born on 22 October, 1860 in Châtellaillon, a small locality situated in the immediate vicinity of La Rochelle. His father was a customs officer, and it is easily understood that the conditions for upbringing of children in his family were far from favorable.

However, apart from revealing his artistic French paintings soon, young Charles-Amable has shown his intellectual facilities as well, so Charles Amable Lenoir could also have devoted himself to education, as Charles Amable Lenoir wanted to become a teacher. Having successfully passed the exams, Charles Amable Lenoir was to definitely leave Fouras, the small town in Charente where his father had been nominated, and go to the Teacher's College in La Rochelle. After graduation from the college Charles Amable Lenoir went to work as a supervisor in the secondary school of Rochefort.

Then Charles Amable Lenoir suddenly decided to choose the artist's career, probably, on the advice of Eugène Bouguereau, then the curé of Notre-Dame de Rochefort. This is our deep conviction, although we do not have any proof for that at the moment! And, on the contrary, the fact that Lenoir went to Paris in 1882 and was admitted after competition to the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in August, is well verified. Thanks to the letter of introduction by Eugène Bouguereau, Charles Amable Lenoir has also entered the Julian Academy where Charles Amable Lenoir joined the French paintings class of Messrs William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.

A trade colleague of his, the French paintings artist and future politician Louis Tider-Toudant, one more Charente friend of Bouguereau, wrote in this connection:
[...] Thanks to his tenacity and patience Charles Amable Lenoir has saved several thousand francs from his modest salary and decided to take his chance. Despite much hardships and vicissitudes, his continuous efforts and exceptional French paintings have brought him the highest rewards in career, including a second place in the Grand Prix de Rome.

His genre paintings have attracted attention but failed to make him a fashionable French paintings artist at his forty years. Lenoir then took to paint "à la Bouguereau" and succeeded in this to make a good fortune while Charles Amable Lenoir kept excelling himself in portrait painting. Charles Amable Lenoir had to return to Fouras to die.
After severe trials in the famous "loges", Charles-Amable Lenoir obtained the Second Grand Prix de Rome, second grade, in 1889 and then the Second Grand Prix de Rome, first grade, in 1890.

Although obliged to settle down in Paris to make a successful career, Lenoir always remained, like his teacher Bouguereau, true to the Charente, and each year both returned to their native province where they used to meet, either in La Rochelle where Bouguereau lived or in Fouras where Lenoir had acquired a piece of land.

After his death it was precisely in Fouras that the painter's wife, born Eugénie Lucchesi, kept the artwork from the late artist's studio including French paintings, études, drawings, furniture and even the primary sources on visual art.