Georges Callot
{{Short description|French artist and educator}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Georges Callot
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1857}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = 23 June 1903
| death_place = Paris, France
| education = École des Arts Décoratifs,
École des Beaux-Arts
| known_for = painting, educator
}}
File:Georges Callot - Portrait de femme où l'attente 1886.jpg
Georges Callot (1857–1903) a French artist and educator, known for his nude, allegorical, and genre paintings.{{Cite web|title=Callot, Georges|url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00030616|access-date=2020-11-25|website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press|year=2011|doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00030616|isbn=978-0-19-977378-7 }}{{Cite book|last=Busse|first=Joachim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDqjswEACAAJ|title=Internationales Handbuch aller maler und Bildhauer des 19 Jahrhunderts-Busse-Verzeichnis|date=1977|publisher=Verlag Busse Kunst Documentation GMBM|volume=2|pages=195|language=de|trans-title=International Handbook of All Painters and Sculptors of the 19th Century-Busse Directory}} He also worked as a decorative painter.
Biography
Georges Callot was born 1857 in Paris, France.{{Cite book|last1=Becker|first1=Felix|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ca4zAQAAIAAJ/page/n412/mode/1up|title=Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart|last2=Vollmer|first2=Hans|last3=Thieme|first3=Ulrich|publisher=E. A. Seemann|others=Thieme-Becker|year=1911|location=Leipzig, Germany|pages=405–406|trans-title=General lexicon of the visual artists from antiquity to the present}}. Callot studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs and then at the École des Beaux-Arts with Louis-Émile Adan.
Callot first participated in the Salon in 1877. In 1890, he joined the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts as a member. Callot taught classes at Académie Delécluse, an atelier-style art school and he was one of the main instructors.
Callot painted, La Philosophie (1903) for the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.{{Cite book|last=Shaw|first=Jennifer Laurie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQA-VfzqsoIC&pg=PA228|title=Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France|date=2002|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-08382-8|pages=228|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tpatAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA203|title=La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité|date=1903|publisher=Bureaux de la Gazette des beaux-arts.|pages=203|language=fr}}
= Death and legacy =
Georges Callot died on 23 June 1903 in Paris. His work can be found in various public museum collections including Art Renewal Center,{{Cite web|title=Georges Callot|url=https://www.artrenewal.org/artists/georges-callot/1826|access-date=2020-11-25|website=Art Renewal Center|language=en}} Châlons-en-Champagne, Musée d'Orsay,{{Cite web|title=Artists, Georges Callot|url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/espace-professionnels/professionals/researchers/rech-rec-art-home/notice-artiste.html?no_cache=1&nnumid=6665&retouroeuvre=%252Fen%252Fcollections%252Findex-of-works%252Fnotice.html%253Fno_cache%253D1%2526nnumid%253D78050|access-date=2020-11-25|website=Musée d'Orsay}} among others.
In the Spanish book, Lesbianas, Discursos y Representaciones (2008), Callot is named as one of the many artists that created anti-feminist work.{{Cite web|last=Tapia|first=Juan Luis|date=2009-08-15|title=El Arte de Lesbos|trans-title=The Art of Lesbos|url=https://www.ideal.es/granada/20090815/cultura/arte-lesbos-20090815.html|access-date=2020-11-24|website=ideal.es|publisher=Ideal Comunicación Digital SL Unipersonal|language=es}} Other artists labeled as having anti-feminist work in the book included Eliseu Visconti, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, Louis de Schryver, and {{ill|Joseph Granié|fr}}.
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Category:French genre painters
Category:19th-century French male artists
Category:19th-century French painters
Category:École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs alumni