Charles A. Waltner

(Paris, France, 1846 - 1925, Paris, France)

French

During the late nineteenth century the etchings of Charles Albert Waltner were equally well received in both Britain and France. His finely wrought interpretive etchings after contemporary paintings provided a serious challenge to the dominant style of mixed method engraving. Waltner studied art in Paris, first focusing on paitning with Jean-Léon Gérôme and then engraving with Louis Achille Martinet and Pierre Louis Henriquel-Dupont . In 1868 he was awarded a scholarship to Rome, and made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1870. The French government appointed him a chevalier of the Legion d'honneur in 1882. Charles Albert Waltner also collaborated with the great French etcher, Felix Braquemond, on several series of etchings. In 1900, he received the Grand Prize for his art from the Exposition Universelle.

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