Charles Mengin

Charles Auguste Mengin (5 July 1853 – 3 April 1933), was a French academic painter and sculptor.

He is known for his painting of the Greek poet Sappho, made in 1877, now in the collection of the Manchester Art Gallery, in England.

[1] He was educated in both painting and sculpture by Gecker,[citation needed] Alexandre Cabanel,[2] Paul Baudry, and sculptor Aimé Millet, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

[3] He first exhibited in 1876 at the Paris Salon together with his twin brother, Paul Eugène Mengin (1853-1937).

He continued his exhibitions at salons of the Société des Artistes Français until 1927.