Charles-Raphaël Maréchal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Metz, Grand Est, France
About Charles-Raphaël Maréchal
- Charles-Raphaël Maréchal (1818–1888) was a French painter of the nineteenth century. Maréchal was the son of the glass painter Charles-Laurent Maréchal.
- Like his father, he was born in Metz, in 1881.
- He was trained in charcoal technique from a young age by his father and pointed toward an artistic career.
- He exhibited several times at the Salon (the official art exhibition of the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris), including in 1868.
- In 1872, the City of Metz bought the immense charcoal work Prayer In The Wilderness, which Maréchal had produced for the Metz Exposition of 1861.Interested in chemistry, he is credited as co-inventor (with Cyprien Tessié du Motay) of the collotype process.
- Maréchal and du Motay's work won a gold medal at the Paris Exposition of 1867.
- Together, Maréchal and du Motay were awarded several patents for processes such as printing on glass windows, producing oxygen for public lighting, and so forth. Maréchal died in Paris on 8 April 1888.
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