Charles Édouard de Beaumont
The Captain's Share
- (1883), photogravure
- image: 6 x 10 in. (15.3 x 25.4 cm.)
- Private collection
- 825 x 594 (96 KB)
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About the Artist
Charles Édouard de Beaumont, French, (1812 - 1888). Beaumont was the son of the sculptor Jean-Batiste Beaumont and a student of Boisselier. Beaumont did early work in oils, but is primarily known as a watercolorist and lithographer.
He debuted at the Paris Salon of 1838. First concentrating first on landscape paintings, Beaumont later turned to genre paintings and continued to exhibit his art through France well into the later nineteenth century.
In his lithography, Beaumont illustrated such classic books of the era and was a regular and very popular contributor to Paris periodicals and journals, particular known for humorous, sometimes satirical, scenes of Parisian fashions and habits, peasants, and putti.