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Glaize, Auguste-Barthélemy
(b Montpellier, 15 Dec 1807; d Paris, 8 Aug 1893). French painter. He was trained by Eugène Devéria and Achille Devéria and made his first appearance at the Salon, in 1836, with Luca Signorelli da Cortona (Avignon, Mus. Calvet) and Flight into Egypt (untraced), the first of a number of religious pictures painted in the 1840s in the pleasant, sentimental manner of Eugène Devéria’s religious work. The Humility of St Elizabeth of Hungary (exh. Salon, 1843; Montpellier, St Louis), Conversion of the Magdalene (1845; Nogent-sur-Seine, parish church) and Adoration of the Shepherds (1846; Quesnoy-sur-Airaine, parish church) belong to an idea of the Rococo common in the 1840s. Glaize’s interest in 18th-century French art is also evident in Blood of Venus (exh. 1846) and Picnic (both Montpellier, Mus. Fabre). This element was less obvious in the 1850s. In 1852 he exhibited a scene of the savage heroism of the Women of Gaul: Episode from the Roman Invasion (Autun, Mus. Rolin), one of the first pictures on a theme that appealed to a new interest in the history of Gaul in the Second Empire. Increasingly, he adopted subject-matter favoured by the NÉO-GREC painters. His Pillory (Marseille, Mus. B.-A.), exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1855, showing victims of misery, ignorance, violence and hypocrisy from all ages, was probably inspired by Jean-Louis Hamon’s Human Comedy (1852; Compiègne, Château). What One Sees at 20 (exh. 1855; Montpellier, Mus. Fabre), a vaporous allegory in the same vein, was bought by the State. Love for Sale (Béziers, Mus. B.-A.), exhibited in 1857, is a neo-Pompeian composition on a theme painted by Henri-Pierre Picou (1824–95) two years earlier.
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