Charles d’Entraygues was born in Brives in 1851. He first studied at the Fine Art School of Toulouse before joining Paris where he became Isidore Pils’ pupil at the Fine Arts. In 1876, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon of French Artists a painting staging children and titled Encumbering choice.

He gained an honourable merit in 1899 and became a member of the Society of French Artists in 1904.

Painter of genre scenes and landscapes, he dedicated himself to children scenes with humorous style. He had great success with public and critic during the 1880’s with his paintings depicting most of the time altar boys in their playtime. He settled in Ecouan, near Paris where many painters were living on the second half of the nineteenth century.