Charles Toché

From 1875 to 1888, he worked on a large project: painting historical and allegorical frescoes in the Grand Galerie of the Château de Chenonceau.

During his work there, he met the writer, Gustave Flaubert, who asked him to illustrate the definitive edition of his novel, The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

[1] His first public exhibition came in 1887, at the Galerie Georges Petit, where he displayed the drawings he had made for the frescoes at Chenonceau.

At the Exposition Universelle of 1889, he helped decorate several of the pavilions; including the Liberal Arts, Republic of South Africa, Argentina, and Viticulture.

In 1893, he produced a series of illustrations on the history of costume for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.