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(3) Auguste(-Simon) Garneray
(b Paris, 1785; d Paris, March 1824). Painter, printmaker, illustrator and designer, son of (1) Jean-François Garneray. He studied with his father and with Jean-Baptiste Isabey. He was appointed Peintre du Cabinet to Queen Hortense, Josephine’s daughter, a title he retained after the fall of the Bonapartes, when Caroline, Duchesse de Berri, appointed him her drawing-master. From 1808 until his death he exhibited many portraits (e.g. Queen Hortense in her Boudoir, 1811; Paris, priv. col., see Praz, fig. 162), miniatures and vignettes. He also painted landscapes and illustrated books (Mme de Genlis’s La Duchesse de la Vallière, 1805; Mme Cottin’s Mathilde, 1804; the works of Molière and others). Apart from a few lithographs dated 1819, his prints consist entirely of etchings of theatrical costumes, many of which were published in his series Receuil des costumes de tous les ouvrages dramatiques representés avec succès sur les grands théâtres de Paris (Paris, 1819–22). He designed costumes for the Académie Royale de Musique, the Opéra and the Théâtre-Français, all in Paris.
Part of the Garneray family
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