Armand Gautier (1825-1894) Woman At The Couture

Impressionist charcoal drawing of a woman sewing Good quality Signed lower left: Armand GAUTIER (1825-1894) Framed and glazed Circa 1880 Amand Gautier was first a student of François Souchon at the academic school of Lille in 1845 where he met Paul Gachet2. He then became a student of Léon Cogniet at the École des beaux-arts in Paris. He frequented the Andler brasserie, rue Hautefeuille, where he became friends with Henri Murger, Champfleury, Gustave Courbet and most of the supporters of the French realist movement. During the 1850s, he exhibited paintings of nuns at the Salon which brought him a certain success and earned him the nickname of "painter of the sisters of charity" [ref. necessary]. Around 1860, he encouraged the young Claude Monet who designated him as his master on his student card3. Initially involved in the fight for realism, he then rubbed shoulders with the impressionist painters. He then spent a lot of time in Honfleur and Le Havre in the company of Eugène Boudin, Johan Barthold Jongkind and Carolus-Duran. Thanks to Paul Gachet, he went to Auvers-sur-Oise, where he met Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin, who bought a painting from him in 18812.