Henri Serrur

Summary

Henri Auguste Calixte César Serrur (1794–1865, signed Henry Auguste or Calixte) was a French painter. A student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he specialised on history paintings and battle scenes. He painted the portraits of the nine Avignon Popes kept at the papal palais in Avignon.

Serrur, Self-portrait

References edit

  • E. A. Fleischmann, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon vol. 16 (1846), p. 290.
  • Francis Petit (ed.), Catalogue des Tableaux, Esquisses, Études & Croquis laissés par Serrur, Peintre d'Histoire (1866) (bnf.fr).

External links edit

  • culture.gouv.fr
  • artnet.com