Identity:

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, a painter and pastellist, was the son and pupil of the sculptor and designer Albert-Ernest Carrier who around 1868 adopted the name Carrier-Belleuse.

Life:

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse was also a pupil of P. V. Galland and Alexandre Cabanel at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He was a painter of genre subjects and portraits in both oil and pastel.

Carrier-Belleuse was President of the International Society of Painting and Sculpture, when in March 1899 it appointed Whistler and Paul Albert Besnard as Honorary Presidents. Carrier-Belleuse wrote to inform Whistler and personally express his admiration and devotion to him (#05496). In December 1901 he invited Whistler to the opening of the Society's nineteenth annual exhibition (#05498).

Bibliography:

Bénézit, E., Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 8 vols, Paris, 1956-61; Hargrove, J., The Life and Work of Albert Carrier-Belleuse, New York, 1977; Ward-Jackson, P., ' A.-E. Carrier-Belleuse, J.-J. Feuchère and the Sutherlands', Burlington Magazine, vol. 127, 1985, pp. 147-53; Hargrove, June, 'Pierre Carrier-Belleuse', The Grove Dictionary of Art Online, ed. L. Macy, http://www.groveart.com (accessed 8 August 2002).