HERMANS Charles
CARNIVAL AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Oil on canvas: 120 x 155 cm / 47.2 x 61.0 in
Signed lower left
Painter of portraits and genre scenes.
Charles Hermans was a pupil of Gallait and Navez.
He stayed in Italy from 1862 to 1867, after attending Gleyre’s workshop in Paris.
Charles Hermans is one of Belgium’s finest artists who is capable of raising a simple genre painting to the height of history painting.
All his paintings display, alongside their artistic qualities, an intellectual eloquence.
Period:
Brussels 1839 - Menton (France) 1924
Belgian School
Exhibitions:
Brussels - Ghent - Liège
Literature:
P. & V. Berko, "Dictionnaire des peintres belges nés entre 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 346 - 347.