The Galerie Charpentier is a Parisian gallery which was active from 1919 to 1966. It was located in a former mansion located 76, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in the 8th arrondissement in Paris. Built in 1802 by the Comte d'Orglandes, this hotel was bought in 1919 by the collector Jean CHARPENTIER (1891-1976) who domiciled there his company, the "Société Jean Charpentier & Cie", which he created with his partner Pierre OSTIER. The company specializes in the sale of furniture and works of art, old and modern paintings, rugs and chandeliers. The public is gradually admitted to visit the collections of Jean CHARPENTIER, in a gallery set up in the main courtyard of the Hotel. Then, Jean CHARPENTIER diversified his activities and organized a first exhibition on Géricault in 1924. After the dissolution of the company Galeries Georges Petit in 1933, the prestigious auctions took place "in the Hôtel de Jean Charpentier". Many other exhibitions or cultural events on different themes would follow. The mansion will thus take the name of Hôtel Jean Charpentier, before taking the final name of Galerie Jean Charpentier. Numerous catalogs are published during each event. Large auctions will also sometimes be organized there. In 1934, Jean CHARPENTIER stop his activities and sold the gallery to Maurice DELTOUR who officially became the new owner in 1937. In agreement with CHARPENTIER, Maurice DELTOUR will continue to operate into the Galerie Charpentier name. In 1939, the Galerie Charpentier will host an exhibition organized by Yvanhoé RAMBOSSON and Frédo SIDES, which will be a foreshadowing of the first Salon des Réalités Nouvelles of 1946. In 1941 Raymond NACENTAN became step by step to 1948 the new owner of the gallery. He will first of all undertake renovations which will be completed in December 1941, date of the official opening of the gallery. New memorable exhibitions and auctions were organized there. From February to June 1943, the first five concerts of the Pléiade were held. But also during the Second World War, the gallery went through a troubled period. During an interrogation of the Special and Judicial Delegations of the Paris Police Prefecture in 1946, Maurice DELTOUR admitted that in April 1941, his gallery was requisitioned by the Germans on an order signed by MUELHMANN, to organize an exhibition of tables for Hermann GOERING. About a hundred works will be sold, of which DELTOUR did not even know the origin. Asked about the activities of his gallery during the occupation, NACENTA will also admit having sold for 519,075 francs of paintings to the occupant. After the war, Raymond NACENTA will nevertheless continue his activities as a gallery owner by organizing thematic or monographic exhibitions on the same model as Jean CHARPENTIER, while regularly presenting the painters of the School of Paris. The Parisian designer Paul POIRET was one of the first to make the transition. The exhibition at the Charpentier gallery shortly preceded the death of the great couturier in April 1944. Then, a clear trend will emerge in the second half of the XXth century to present only contemporary painters (Vlaminck, Modigliani, Utrillo, Soutine, Van Dongen, de Staël, Gauguin, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Henri Rousseau, Jacques Villon, ... ). The Galerie Charpentier will thus acquire a reputation and a central place in the post-war Parisian art market. The gallery will close its doors in June 1966. At the end of the 1980s, certains rooms were rented to French fashion designer Pierre CARDIN who set up a restaurant there. In 1988, the auction company Sotheby's, established in Paris since 1967, chose this building to set up its Parisian offices.