Charles Lebayle
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Charles Lebayle (28 May 1856, in Paris – 22 January 1898, in Paris) was a French painter and designer, who is mostly known for his collaborations with stained glass makers.
Biography
His father ran a window dressing and decorating company. At the age of fourteen, he began attending evening classes at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where he became a student of Alexandre Cabanel and the sculptor Aimé Millet.[https://books.google.com/books?id=W2TrAAAAMAAJ&dq=charles+Lebayle+necrologie&pg=PA364 Courrier de l'Art] Vol.6, edited by Eugène Véron. After his father's death, he became responsible for his family and tried to maintain the business, but it ultimately failed.
His début at the Salon came in 1877. Rather than paintings, he exhibited works in stained glass; a suggestion which came from his friend {{ill|Henri Carot|fr}}, who would later become a well known glass painter. He won a competition at the École des Beaux-arts in 1879, then studied oil painting with Adolphe Yvon, in classes that were open to the public.
In 1885, he worked at Autun Cathedral where he helped create a glass roof depicting the life of the Virgin, from drawings by the architect Lucien Magne and decorator {{ill|François-Émile Ehrmann|fr}}. He also created the main window at the Vannes Town Hall, together with {{ill|Charles Champigneulle|fr}}.[http://www.mairie-vannes.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/Deliberations/12.12.2014/Documents/41_Acte_Musee_de_la_Cohue_-_Acquisition_d_un_tableau_vitrail.pdf Meeting of the Vannes Municipal Council, 2014]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
A year later, he won the Prix de Rome for Claudius Proclaimed Emperor, and spent two years at the Villa Medicis. While there, he painted a mural at the Villa called "The Sea and the Shepherd". However, none of the paintings he created during his stay were purchased by the French government, as was customary. Following this disappointment, he lost his sister and mother.
When he returned to France, he took a position in the workshops of the famous stained glass artist, Lucien Bégule, and helped create windows for the Hôpital de la Charité in Lyon, most of which were destroyed when the building was demolished in 1933.[http://www.vitraux-begule.com/pages/lieux/charite/hopital_charite.html Hôpital de la Charité] @ Vitraux Bégule.
After making an unsuccessful attempt to establish his own glass painting business and a continuing failure to achieve recognition as an artist in his own right, he became despondent and shot himself through the heart.Henri Carot: «Notice nécrologique de Charles Lebayle», from Le journal de la peinture sur verre, #25, March 1898.
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Category:19th-century French painters
Category:French stained glass artists and manufacturers
Category:Artists who died by suicide
Category:Prix de Rome for painting
Category:École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs alumni