Paul Claude-Michel Carpentier
1787 - 1877
Paul Claude-Michel Carpentier was a French portrait, genre, history painter and author. He studied with Jean-Jacques Lebarbier (1738-1826) and briefly with Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). Until 1824 he exhibited at the Salons under his family name LeCarpentier, but after 1824 shortened his last name to Carpentier.
In 1825 Carpentier earned a silver and bronze medal respectively at salons in Douai and Lille for his painting A Painter in His Studio Giving Advice to his Young Student. Then he exhibited at the Paris Salons from 1827-1839.
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