Biography

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

 

Born 1866, in Paris; died 1946, in Lormes.

 

Painter, watercolourist, pastellist, lithographer. Landscapes, waterscapes, urban landscapes.

Charles Guilloux worked at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and was a self-taught artist. He exhibited his works from 1892. He exhibited at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1905, and at the Salon des Indépendants from 1911 to 1914.

 

Museum and Gallery Holdings

 

Cleveland (MA): The Deluge (1893, colour lithograph); Valley of the Strangala, near Quimper (1896, watercolour and coloured chalk over black chalk)

Paris (Mus. d’Orsay): Twilight (1892, oil on canvas); Banks of the Seine in Twilight (1894, oil on canvas)