Studio: international art (10.1897)

A Decorative Modeller

bas relief by alexandre charpentier

colour, furnish him with many happy subjects. The the Communal School, he was apprenticed to an
decorative effect of his plates is striking in the engraver of jewels in the Quartier du Marais. Too
extreme, and so pleasing to the eye that one almost poor to stand the expense of entering the sculpture
regrets to turn them over. One would prefer to classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he had to be
see these eloquent pictures forming part of some content with studying at the school of medal en-
mural decoration ; for, there, beyond all doubt, graving, which, by the way, produced one great
they would be in their proper place. The engraver of medals—Roty.

draughtsmanship is clearness itself, and admirably And ever since those early days Charpentier has
simple. The sculptor's hand is there, the hand worked and struggled on, never condescending, in
accustomed to work on a large

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than the play of light and shade
upon the shape itself. I am far
from complaining of this. On the
contrary, therein lies the secret of
their merit and their charm.

Thus I have attempted in this
summary fashion to indicate the
characteristic features of Alexandre
Charpentier's personality. With-
out going into the details of his
private life, it may be said—and
the fact is interesting enough—
that he was born in an atmos-
phere of work, and, to start with,
was a workman himself. He has
made himself what he is by his
own strength, by his patient energy,
which never tired; by the coura-
geous force of will, which no ob-
stacles could resist. Educated at embossed design by a. charpentier
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