{{Short description|French sculptor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} thumbnail|right|Bust of Charles Gauthier at his tomb thumbnail|right|''Sergent Blandan''. c. 1886–87. Rue Sergent Blandan, Nancy. '''Charles Gauthier''' ({{IPA|fr|ʃaʁl ɡotje}}; 7 December 1831 – 5 January 1891) was a French sculptor who was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1872.<ref name=Benezit>"GAUTHIER, Charles." ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford Art Online'', Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 June 2014.</ref>
==Career== Gauthier was born in Chauvirey-le-Châtel. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on 6 April 1854, where he studied under François Jouffroy. He won a silver medal at the 1861 Prix de Rome and was awarded medals in 1865, 1866 and 1869. He exhibited at the Salon between 1859 and 1882.<ref name=Benezit/> He died in Paris.
Gauthier's allegorical statue entitled ''Moderation'' was placed in the foyer of the Paris Opera House in 1873. A plaster model for the statue exists in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay.<ref>[http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?no_cache=1&nnumid=016041&cHash=b4c3310770 Charles Gauthier: ''Modération''] Musée d'Orsay, 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.</ref> His ''Young Poacher'' (Fr. ''Jeune braconnier'') is on display in the grounds of the Château de Fontainebleau.<ref>[http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?no_cache=1&nnumid=006506&cHash=02be693e29 Charles Gauthier: ''Jeune braconnier''] Musée d'Orsay, 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.</ref>
==Sculpture of Cleopatra== Following restoration, a plaster sculpture of the suicide of Cleopatra, previously thought to be by Albert Darcq, was revealed to be a work by Charles Gauthier after Gauthier's signature was discovered during cleaning.<ref name=ArtTribune>{{cite web|title=Restorations of 19th century sculptures in Lille|url=http://www.thearttribune.com/Restorations-of-19th-century.html|website=The Art Tribune|accessdate=24 June 2014|archive-date=3 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503180809/http://www.thearttribune.com/Restorations-of-19th-century.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The sculpture was acquired by the French government from the Salon of 1880, then sent to the French embassy in Tunis, then to Lille (home of Darcq) in 1886 and finally to the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille where the restoration took place.<ref>[http://www.pba-lille.fr/spip.php?article3164 Cléopâtre, 1880.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623230635/http://www.pba-lille.fr/spip.php?article3164# |date=23 June 2014 }} Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.</ref>
==Statue of Sergent Blandan== The statue of Sergent Blandan (Jean Pierre Hippolyte Blandan), French army hero of Algeria, was commissioned from Gauthier following a public competition. The statue once stood in Boufarik, but following Algerian independence it was moved to France in 1963, where it was placed in the courtyard of a barracks in Nancy. In 1990, it was moved to Rue du Sergent Blandan in Nancy.<ref name=Bland>[http://afn.collections.free.fr/pages/24_blandan.html LE SERGENT BLANDAN LYON-BOUFARIK-NANCY] 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014.</ref>
==Selected works== *''Charlemagne''. Bronze. Collegiate church of St-Quentin. *''Our Lady of Humility''. Plaster. Church at Argenteuil. *''St Matthew''. Stone. Church of the Trinity. *''Young Poacher''. 1872. Marble. Château de Fontainebleau. *''Moderation''. 1873. Paris Opera House. *''Andromeda''. 1875. Marble. Musée d'Orsay.<ref>[http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?no_cache=1&nnumid=006505&cHash=6329315c24 Charles Gauthier: ''Andromède''] Musée d'Orsay, 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.</ref> *''Cleopatra''. 1880. Plaster. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. *''Sergent Blandan''. c. 1886–87. Rue Sergent Blandan, Nancy.<ref name=Bland/>
==See also== *Charles Virion
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{commons category|Charles Gauthier}} *{{cite web|url=http://les-savons-de-chauvirey.over-blog.com/article-charles-gauthier-87808126.html|title=Charles Gauthier - les-savons-de-chauvirey.over-blog.com|publisher=les-savons-de-chauvirey.over-blog.com|accessdate=26 July 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809155012/http://les-savons-de-chauvirey.over-blog.com/article-charles-gauthier-87808126.html|archivedate=9 August 2014|df=dmy-all}}
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