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Louis Gillet

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Louis Gillet
BornLouis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet
(1876-12-11)11 December 1876
Paris, France
Died1 July 1943(1943-07-01) (aged 66)
Paris, France
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrench
Alma materCollège Stanislas de Paris
École normale supérieure
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectArt

Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French art historian and literary historian.

Life

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Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876.[1] He studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the École normale supérieure. In 1900, he became a lecturer on the French at the University of Greifswald; from 1907 to 1909 he was a professor at the Université Laval in Montreal. He became an art critic in Paris, before entering the armed forces. Gillet contributed a number of article to the Catholic Encyclopedia.[2]

Works

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  • Raphaël, 1907
  • Watteau, 1921
  • Trois variations sur Claude Monet, 1927
  • Esquisses anglaises, 1930
  • Shakespeare, 1931
  • Essais sur l'art français, 1937, dedicated to Bernard Berenson.

References

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  1. ^ "Actes de naissance". Archives de l'état civil de Paris (in French) (11/5286/1876): 3. 14 December 1876. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  2. ^ The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, 1917, p. 66Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.