Portraits of Marc-Antoine Charpentier

A watercolor portrait identified as Charpentier has been found (http://ranumspanat.com/portrait_charpentier.htm)

A portrait of the artist: Molière as Arnolphe and Marc-Antoine Charpentier at a ball, by Joan Dejean (http://ranumspanat.com/portrait_moliere_mac.htm)

Charpentier the Man

What we have learned about his formative years:

Charpentier biographies by Roquefort-Flamericourt and Fétis (http://ranumspanat.com/roquefort_fetis.htm)

Charpentier’s birth year: 1643 (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/birthdate.html)

Early Charpentier links to the Guises: the “friends” at the Charpentier-Edouard wedding, 1662 (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/friends_family.html)

Charpentier’s Roman experience (http://ranumspanat.com/rome_intro.htm)

Carissimi and the Jesuits (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/rome_charpentier.html)

Rome: a 10-part biography of Jacques Dalibert, the Paris-born “bon François” in the service of Queen Christina of Sweden (http://ranumspanat.com/dalibert_intro.htm)

Rome: Charpentier as a Rome-trained rhetorician, per the Journal de Trévoux (http://ranumspanat.com/trevoux_tons.htm)

Rome and the Jesuits: can we believe that Charpentier actually met Carissimi? (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/rome_charpentier.html)

Rome: several hypotheses about how Charpentier got there and whom he met there (among them was Dassoucy!) (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/rome_hypotheses.html)

Charpentier and Le Brun: the Te Deum of 1687, and some possible ties between Charpentier’s grandmother and Le Brun’s father (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/lebrun_tedeum.html)

Materials on Charpentier’s formative years and later career, discovered after the publication of Portraits (http://ranumspanat.com/post2004_findings.htm)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier entered law school in October 1662 (http://ranumspanat.com/law_faculty_register.htm)

The Charpentier family

Charpentier’s family (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/siblings.html)

Etiennette Charpentier’s two wills (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/siblings.html); and Etiennette’s will of 1707 (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/etiennette_will1717.html) [sic]

 Marie de Sainte-Blandine Charpentier, his sister, nun at Port-Royal (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/blandine_charpentier.html)

Armand-Jean Charpentier, his brother (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/armand_jean_charpentier.html)

 Elisabeth Charpentier, his sister, and her husband Jean Edouard (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/m&mme_edouard.html)

 Marie-Anne Edouard, his niece (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/marieanne_edouard.html)

 Jacques Edouard, his bookseller nephew (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/jacques_edouard.html)

... To which can be added the article about copies of Charpentier’s Motets meslez published by Edouard and Jean-François Mathas, Marie-Anne’s husband (http://ranumspanat.com/motets_melez_paraphes.htm)

 Also, it is interesting to compare the Charpentiers’ links to the Guises and the House of Orléans, and my findings on the backgrounds of the members of Mlle de Guise’s musical ensemble (http://www.ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/guise_music.html)

Information about his life post-1670 (the Guises, the Jesuits and the Sainte-Chapelle)

Charpentier’s apartment at the Hôtel de Guise (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/apartment.html)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, "me de musique du Colege de Louis le Grand," April 24, 1691, signs a notarial act involving his testing the organ at the Jesuit school(http://ranumspanat.com/factoids.htm) Factlet of Feb. 1, 2008,

The death inventory of François Chapperon, Charpentier’s predecessor at the Sainte-Chapelle, gives us much information about what Charpentier’s final years must have been like (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/chapperon_inventory.html)

Theorist

Discovered at the Lilly Library: manuscript “XLI,” an autograph theoretical work by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (late 1698) (http://ranumspanat.com/xli_masterpg.htm),

... and five related pages: Prologue, the discovery (http://ranumspanat.com/xli_prologue.htm); Part I, the volume at the Lilly Library (http://ranumspanat.com/xli_part1.htm); Part II, Marc-Antoine Charpentier the theorist (http://ranumspanat.com/xli_part2.htm); Part III Charpentier as a drafter of composition manuals (http://ranumspanat.com/xli_part3.htm); Part IV, proof and conclusion (http://ranumspanat.com/xli_proof.htm)

A dot at the beginning of a musical measure: What did it mean for Marc-Antoine Charpentier? (http://ranumspanat.com/dots_MAC.htm)

Rhetorician

A dot at the beginning of a musical measure: What did it mean for Marc-Antoine Charpentier? (http://ranumspanat.com/dots_MAC.htm)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jesuit Rhetoric, the Journal de Trévoux, and the exercise known as “the Tones” (les Tons) (http://ranumspanat.com/trevoux_tons.htm)

St. Cecilia and Conversions: Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s oratorios in honor of St. Cecilia as expression of the Guises’ mission to convert Protestants, 1676-1686 (http://ranumspanat.com/caecilia_conversions.htm)

Judith, Femme forte and Marian figure: A look at how the Vulgate text was redacted into a libretto for a Guise “devotion” (http://ranumspanat.com/judith_libretto.htm)