Jacques Cartier (1907-2001) is a French artist with a rich and varied stylistic and technical corpus, whose artistic career spans the 20th century from the 1920s onwards. 

From painting to sculpture through drawing, printmaking, the realization of medals or illustration, this protean and curious artist participates very early in the most prestigious Salons of the French artistic institutional landscape (Salon des artistes français, Salon des animaliers, Salon d'Hiver, commissions for the Universal Exhibition of 1937, Salon de l'école française ...).

A little-known artist despite his major role in the development of exotic animals during the Art Deco period, he exhibited during the 1940s alongside Paul Jouve, François Pompon, Jacques Nam, Roger Godchaux, Henri Valette, André Margat, Xavier de Poret...

His life in the studio and at the Salons was also alternated with the realization of numerous decorative commissions for the high places of Parisian social life.

Thus, for about fifteen years, he produced decorations (the Etoile swimming pool, the Lido, the Dame de Pique, the Cabourg casino), sculptures (the White Elephant, the Roulotte, a cornice of the dome of the Institut de France), coats of arms in bas-relief for towns (Falaise, Fontainebleau), restaurant decorations (Hôtel de Londres, Filet de Sole in Fontainebleau) and always animal paintings and medals: Roquépine, Oscar RL, as well as the Napoleon for Courvoisier.

From the 1960s, he drew all the animals for the Petit Larousse illustré, and for the Air de Chasse series published by François Girand. He also illustrates novels by Maurice Genevoix (La boîte à pêche and L'écureuil du bois-bourru) as well as educational books for the Saint-Paul editions.

The catalog raisonné of the artist realized by Axel Rondouin, director of the Sarto gallery, is available in the publication tab.