Emmanuel Bénézit

Art historian from France
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroArt historian from France
PlacesFrance
wasHistorian Art historian Art collector Art dealer
Work fieldArts Academia Business Social science
Gender
Male
Birth1854, Jersey, Jersey
Death21 October 1920Paris, France (aged 66 years)
Family
Children:Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit
The details

Biography

Charles Emmanuel Bénézit ([benezi]; Jersey, 1854 – Paris, 1920) was a French gallery owner, collector, art historian and editor of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.

Biography

Bénézit was born on Jersey, where his father the musician Charles Bénézit, like Hugo, was exiled. The Channel Islands census records Charles and Euphrasie Bénézit "born in France" and Emmanuel's older sisters already being on the island before Hugo in the 1851 census, and still there after Hugo in the 1871 census. The census records five sisters; Caroline 1842, Marie 1846, Ursule 1948, Adele 1850, Berthe 1859.

His son Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit (1887–1975) was a painter and art curator. Marguerite Bénézit was his daughter.

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