Charles Lebayle

At the age of fourteen, he began attending evening classes at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where he became a student of Alexandre Cabanel and the sculptor Aimé Millet.

He won a competition at the École des Beaux-arts in 1879, then studied oil painting with Adolphe Yvon, in classes that were open to the public.

In 1885, he worked at Autun Cathedral where he helped create a glass roof depicting the life of the Virgin, from drawings by the architect Lucien Magne and decorator François-Émile Ehrmann [fr].

When he returned to France, he took a position in the workshops of the famous stained glass artist, Lucien Bégule, and helped create windows for the Hôpital de la Charité in Lyon, most of which were destroyed when the building was demolished in 1933.

[3] After making an unsuccessful attempt to establish his own glass painting business and a continuing failure to achieve recognition as an artist in his own right, he became despondent and shot himself through the heart.