Charles Gleyre

1806–1874 · Realism

Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre, was a Swiss artist who was a resident in France from an early age. He took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including Henry-Lionel Brioux, Jean-Léon Gérôme, George du Maurier, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Toulmouche, and James McNeill Whistler.

15 paintings

• Portrait of Madame Arsène Houssaye (1845)
• Sappho Going to Bed (1867)
• Daphnis et Chloe revenant de la montagne (1850)
• The Bath (1868)
• Evening (1843)
• Romans Under the Yoke (1858)
• The Evening Hymn (1851)
• Ulysses and Nausicaa
• Ruth and Boaz (1854)
• Cléonis et Cydippe (1843)
• Odysseus and Nausicaa (1854)
• The Bath of Diana (1850)
• Egyptian Temple (1840)
• Oriental Lady (1840)
• Lost Illusions (1865)