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Emmanuel Bénézit
Charles Emmanuel Bénézit (; Jersey, 1854 – Paris, 1920) was a French gallery owner, collector, art historian and editor of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
Biography.
Bénézit was born on Jersey, where his father the musician Charles Bénézit, like Hugo, was exiled. The Channel Islands census records Charles and Euphrasie Bénézit "born in France" and Emmanuel's older sisters already being on the island before Hugo in the 1851 census, and still there after Hugo in the 1871 census. The
German National Library.
- Hans-F. Schweers: "Gemälde in deutschen Museen". Katalog der ausgestellten und depotgelagerten Werke, 4.akt.u.erw.Ausgb., Seite 607, K. G. Saur Verlag, München 2005, , German language.
- Stjepan Lozo: "Vessel Portraits by Alexander Kircher", Exhibition catalog year 2000, The Croatian Maritime Museum, Split
- Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs dessinateurs et graveurs. Édition Gründ, Paris 1999, Band 7, S. 814, ---»