Charles Fortin

Chouans, 1853, now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Charles Fortin, a French genre and landscape painter, the son of Augustin Félix Fortin, was born in Paris in 1815. He studied under Beaume and Roqueplan, and first exhibited in 1835. He died in Paris in 1865. Amongst his works are:

• The Rag-seller.
• The Return to the Cottage.
• The Chimney Corner.
• The Butcher's Shop.
• The Village Barber.
• Chouans. 1853. (Lille Museum.)
• The Blessing. (Luxembourg Gallery.)
• The Music Lesson.
• The Smoker. 1855.
• During Vespers, Morbihan. (Paris Exhibition, 1855.)
• Rustic Interior. 1859.
• The Country Tailor. 1861.
• Between two Halts. 1864.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "FORTIN, Charles" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.