Charles Picard
Charles Picard was a prominent Classical archaeologist and historian of ancient Greek art. He is best known for his multi-volume, monumental survey, Manuel d'archéologie grecque: La sculpture. Volume I, was published in 1935. He completed the second fascicule of Volume IV in 1963. Picard was elected member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1932.
His children were the historian Gilbert Charles-Picard and Yvonne Picard, a member of the French Resistance, who died at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.
