Joseph-Charles Franchère

Joseph-Charles Franchère (March 4, 1866 – May 12, 1921) was a painter, illustrator and church decorator in Montreal, Quebec.

Biography Joseph-Charles Franchère was born in Montreal and studied painting at the Conseil des arts et manufactures de la province de Québec with Joseph Chabert and in the studio of painter-decorator François-Xavier-Édouard Meloche. He then studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and at the Académie Colarossi from 1888 to 1889. He returned to Montreal in 1890 and along with his contemporaries Ludger Larose, Henri Beau, Joseph Saint-Charles and Charles Gill received a commission for Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of the basilica of Our Lady of Montreal.

He returned to Paris and painted three canvases: La Vierge de l'Apocalypse (1892), La Multiplication des pains (1893) and Le Christ consolateur des affligés (1895). and as part of the World's Fair in Chicago (1893), in Buffalo (1901) and in St. Louis (1904).

Works

The Virgin of the apocalypse (1892) The Multiplication of the Loaves (1893) Christ consoling the afflicted (1895) Self portrait (1894), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Sillery seen from the Plains of Abraham (1895) Reading by the sea, Trois-Pistoles (1900), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Return from the ball (undated) (exhibited at the Joliette Art Museum)