The Painter of Personas Born in the vibrant, often turbulent heart of Paris in 1897, Julien Henri Carette was a man whose true medium was not canvas, but the human face. His early years were marked by the grit and hardship characteristic of a life shaped by struggle, yet they were infused with an undeniable artistic impulse. Before he became a fixture of the silver screen, Carette sought to capture the world through the brush, enrollin…