Charles Léon Godeby (26 January 1866, in Rennes – 1952 in Quimper), was a French painter who painted scenes in Brittany and North Africa.
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A pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Luc-Olivier Merson, he exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1890 onwards. He was also Director of Quimper's Musée des beaux-arts from 1922. He was commissioned to decorate the Quimper Mairie's "escalier d'honneur" with two triptychs, one depicting scenes from the battlefield and the trenches and the other representing the sacrifice made by the soldiers from Quimper. 566 men from Quimper gave their lives in the Great War.[1][2] This memorial was inaugurated on 27 May 1928[3] and restored in 2011.[4][5]
Some of Godeby's paintings are:-
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