Rosebois :: une famille d’artistes peintre au 19ème siècle

Auguste Barthélémy Glaize
(1807-1893)

Esther
(1816-1907)

Léon Glaize
(1842-1931)

Raymond Glaize
(1880-1914)

François Glaize
(1883-1945)

Marcelle
(1891-1980)

Raymond Glaize
(1923-1987)

Auguste Barthélémy
Glaize
(1807-1893)

Esther
(1816-1907)

Esther (1816-1907) and
Auguste Barthélémy Glaize (1807-1893)

Born in Montpellier, Auguste, pupil of the Dévéria, is an original figure in the nineteen century painting. Follower of Proudhon and Fourrier, not only does he paint hedonist scenes of mythologic inspirations (Les Baigneuses, 1844), but also complex philosophical allegories (Le Pilori, 1855, La Pourvoyeuse de misère, 1860), as well as religious subjects (L'Etoile de Bethléem, 1846, chapelle Saint-Jean, Eglise Saint-Sulpice, Paris, 1859). Whatever the masterpiece, composition and faces reveal the human look of the painter. Baudelaire and Théophile Gauthier noticed his singular talent. Shy and recluse « the Pilori philosopher » would stay away from society life and live in Rosebois. Esther, former teacher, was taking care at the same time of both her husband and son Léon's careers. She would give all her children's friends pleasant and kind reception so would they call her « mummy Glaize ».

Atelier rue de Vaugirard, Paris. Léon et son fils Raymond, devant le portrait d'Auguste
(Château de Versailles).

Léon Glaize
(1842-1931)

Léon Glaize (1842-1931)

Dedicated to painting by his father, in 1859, at the age of 17, he exhibited his first painting "the Dalila Treachery". He joined the Beaux arts of Paris and received the second prize of Rome in 1806.
Leon was a delicate and ingenious painter devoted to history "conjuration in early Rome" and monument compositions (salon des arts in the Paris Townhall). He was also a very exact and classical portrait painter, mainly of Marie Delna, his longlife friend.

Raymond Glaize
(1880-1914)

Raymond Glaize (1880-1914)

Influenced by his father Leon, he is the first family painter to paint landscapes, mainly in Seine-et-Marne. His mother was of Vacquerie descent and parent to Victor Hugo who became his godfather. very promising artist, he died in september 1914 during the war. He exhibited three paintings at the French salon des Artistes : "the Mermaids 1908", "Spring - 1910" and "Mélisande - 1911".

François Glaize
(1883-1945)

Marcelle
(1891-1980)

Marcelle (1891-1980) and
François Glaize (1883-1945)

François intends to have a military career and is successfully enrolled at Saint-Cyr. After the first world war, he created in the Far East an airline called Paris-Hanoi. During the second worldwar, he became a "resistant" and was deported to Buchenwald where he died. He was a man of discretion, of culture and loved painting landscapes (Camaret, Ouessant, Indochina ) like his brother Raymond, he will exhibit at the Salon des Artistes français.
Marcelle, the wife of Francois and mother of five, will lead a peaceful life. Gifted for painting and music, she was a student at the Grande Chaumière of André Lhote who called her "madame Renoir" sensuality and sense of colours are the basis of her paintings mainly landscapes and portraits. Marcelle never stopped painting to her last day.

Raymond Glaize (1923-1987)

Raymond Glaize (1923-1987)

Manager like his father François, Raymond shares his life between the necessary job for the upkeep of his family and painting which has been the passion of his life since he was fifteen. wherever he lives, there will always be an « teller". Student of Othon Friesz at the Grande Chaumière, he gives to colour and to tones of colour the preference. He shows great interest in picture composition. He was preparing an exhibition when he died.