Charles-Louis Wagner

Trained in Berlin under his father, goldsmith to the Prussian court, Charles-Louis Wagner settled in Paris in the 1820s. In partnership with the lapidary Mention, and awarded gold medals in 1832 and 1837, he revived early techniques such as niello and was among the pioneers of historicism. Frédéric-Jules Rudolphi would carry on this neo-Gothic vein.