Charles Sterling

For the British naval officer, see Charles Stirling.

Charles Sterling (5 September 1901, Warsaw – 9 January 1991, Paris) was a Polish art historian mainly active in France.

Aged 19, he fought in the Polish–Soviet War in defence of newly gained Polish independence and was decorated several times. He then graduated in law in 1924 before turning to art history in Germany, Great Britain and finally in Paris from 1925 to 1928, under the direction of Gaston Brière at the École du Louvre and at the same time on Henri Focillon's course at the Sorbonne. He specialised in the French 'primitives' (notably the Moulins Master) and the Caravaggisti. From 1929 to 1961 he was curator of the department of paintings at the Louvre.

References

• Charles Sterling - Dictionary of Art Historians at the Wayback Machine (archived August 11, 2017)