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(Jean Joseph) Emile Charlet, born on June 7, 1851 in Rue des Dominicains 3, Brussels, was the son of Guillaume Charlet (1822-1907), a merchant and industrialist specializing in the manufacture of braids and trimmings for cars and straps for saddlers, and Emilie Marie D'Ieteren (1824-1900), who married in Brussels on May 22, 1847. He is the brother of painter Frantz Charlet. Emile Charlet married Louise Charlotte Schamps (b. Brussels, October 9, 1857), also a painter, in Brussels on October 19, 1880.
Emile Charlet studied at the Académie royale des beaux-arts in Brussels, then completed his training in the studio of Jean-François Portaels.
Emile Charlet's career began at the Ghent Salon in 1874. He then exhibited at the Brussels Salon of 1875 and took part in some fifteen Belgian triennial salons, as well as four Paris Salons and several exhibitions organized by the Cercle artistique et littéraire de Bruxelles. Emile Charlet also exhibited in his personal studio on rue Paul Lauters in Ixelles, where he had lived since around 1900[. He stopped exhibiting after 1910, but continued to paint. Exceptionally, he sent his works to the Cercle artistique in March 1926 for a final exhibition.
On March 3, 1927, Emile Charlet died, aged 75, at rue Paul Lauters no. 33 in Ixelles, where he had his studio.
We have a work listed at the Salon de Gand in 1877, "Sujet oriental". Probably the one we have here.
Beautiful frame undergoing restoration. 90x64
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