Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier
1856 - 1909 French Sculptor
Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier was a French sculptor, medalist, craftsman, and cabinet-maker.
From working-class origins and apprenticed to an engraver as a young man, he became a studio assistant to the innovative medallist Joseph-Hubert Ponscarme.
Along with Ponscarme, Louis-Oscar Roty, and other artists, Charpentier advanced a resurgence of art in French medal design.
Charpentier experimented with a wide variety of formats and materialstin, marble, wood, leather, and terra cotta work, the latter
executed by ceramic artisan Emile Mller. He opened several cabinet shops and designed many sets of furniture. Many of his custom designs for fixtures
(doorknobs, door plates, window handles and the like) were subsequently mass-produced and commercially sold.
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