Henri Charlier (19 April 1883 – 24 December 1975) was a French painter and sculptor, noted for his religious art.

During his childhood and adolescence he would spend his summer vacations with his maternal grandparents Clovis and Nathalie Bidet, winemakers at Cheny, Yonne.

He continued to study painting at the Académie Colarossi, and pursued a career as a painter until the age of thirty.

[1]: 6 In 1919 Henri et Emilie Charlier moved to the family house in Cheny, and transformed the barn into a studio for sculpture.

He taught several pupils including the painter Bernard Bouts, with whom Charlier founded a stained glass studio at Mesnil.

[3] Charlier wrote a book Culture, École, Métier in which he urged a renewal of education, starting with the teachers.

[4]: 126 He wrote that "it is indispensable that teaching break loose from the sort of academism of letters or of thought which tends to judge everything by means of general ideas.

[4]: 128 Charlier created a fresco to decorate the tomb of Brother André in Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.