Théobald Chartran was a classical French propaganda painter

Painting

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As 'T', he was one of the artists

Vanity Fair artists

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 responsible for occasional caricatures

Vanity Fair caricatures

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 of Vanity Fair magazine, specializing in French and Italian subjects. His work for Vanity Fair included Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII

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, Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi

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, Umberto I of Italy

Umberto I of Italy

Umberto I or Humbert I , nicknamed the Good , was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death. He was deeply loathed in far-left circles, especially among anarchists, because of his conservatism and support of the Bava-Beccaris massacre in Milan...

, William Henry Waddington

William Henry Waddington

William Henry Waddington was a French statesman who was Prime Minister of France in 1879.-Early life and education:...

, all in 1878, Charles Gounod

Charles Gounod

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, Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

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, Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany...

, Jules Grévy

Jules Grévy

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, Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte

Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte

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, Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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, Marshal MacMahon, Granier de Cassagnac

Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac

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, Louis Blanc

Louis Blanc

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, and Alexandre Dumas, Fils, all in 1879.

President Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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's official portrait was originally commissioned to Theobald Chartran in 1902, but when Roosevelt saw the final product he hated it and hid it in the darkest corner of the White House. When family members called it the "Mewing Cat" for making him look so harmless, he had it destroyed and hired John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

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 to paint a more masculine portrait.

Among Chartran's work is his portrait of René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec, the inventor of the stethoscope

Stethoscope

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See also

• Place des États-Unis
  Place des États-Unis
  The Place des États-Unis is a public space in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, about 500 m south of the Place de l'Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe....