Alexandre Cabanel

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Alexandre Cabanel
Self Portrait (Alexandre Cabanel).jpg
Self-portrait (1852)
Born(1823-09-28)28 September 1823
Montpellier, France
Died23 January 1889(1889-01-23) (aged 65)
Paris, French Third Republic
NationalityFrench
EducationFrançois-Édouard Picot
Known forPainting
Notable work
Birth of Venus
MovementAcademicism
AwardsPrix de Rome

Alexandre Cabanel (French: [kabanɛl]; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier, and was Napoleon III's preferred painter.[1]

Biography[]

Cabanel entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen, and studied with François-Édouard Picot. He exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1844, and won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1845 at the age of 22.[2] Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863. He was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1864 and taught there until his death.[3]

He was closely connected to the Paris Salon: "He was elected regularly to the Salon jury and his pupils could be counted by the hundred at the Salons. Through them, Cabanel did more than any other artist of his generation to form the character of belle époque French painting".[4] His refusal together with William-Adolphe Bouguereau to allow the impressionist painter Édouard Manet and many other painters to exhibit their work in the Salon of 1863 led to the establishment of the Salon des Refusés by the French government. Cabanel won the Grande Médaille d'Honneur at the Salons of 1865, 1867, and 1878.

A successful academic painter, his 1863 painting The Birth of Venus is one of the best known examples of 19th-century academic painting. The picture was bought by the emperor Napoleon III; there is also a smaller replica (painted in 1875 for a banker, John Wolf) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It was given to them by Wolf in 1893.

Pupils[]

Self-portrait (1847).
Alexandre Cabanel, ca.1865. Photograph by Charles Reutlinger (?).
Cabanel's workshop at the School of Fine Arts., 1883, painting by Tancrède Bastet, Museum of Grenoble.

His pupils included:

Selected works[]

The Birth of Venus (1863)
  • The Fallen Angel (L'ange déchu, 1847), Musée Fabre
  • The Death of Moses (La mort de Moïse, 1851), Dahesh Museum, New York City. New York, USA
  • Aglaé and Boniface (Aglaé et Boniface, 1857), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio USA
  • Nymph abducted by a faun (Nymphe enlevée par un faune, 1860), private collection
  • The Birth of Venus (La naissance de Vénus, 1863), Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Napoleon III (1865), Musée national du château de Compiègne, Écouen, France
  • The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Paradise (Adam et Ève chassés du Paradis, 1867), private collection
  • The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (La mort de Francesca de Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta, 1870), Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Portrait de la comtesse de Keller (1873), Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Thamar (1875)
  • Phèdre (1880), Musée Fabre, Montpellier
  • Ophelia (Ophélie, 1883), private collection
  • Ruth glanant dans les champs de Booz (1886), Musée Garinet, Châlons-en-Champagne
  • Portrait de Mary Victoria Leiter (1887), Kedleston Hall, England,[5]
  • Preparatory study of Cleopatra for Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers
  • Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (Cléopâtre essayant des poisons sur des condamnés à mort, 1887), Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. ^ Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, 1982, Barcelona
  2. ^ Facos, Michelle (2011). An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Art. New York: Routledge. p. 282.
  3. ^ van Hook, Bailey (1996). Angels of Art: Women and Art in American Society, 1876-1914. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 28.
  4. ^ Dictionary of Art (1996) vol. 5, pp. 341–344
  5. ^ Mary Leiter (1887), Derbyshire, England, Kedleston Hall; National Trust for Places of Historic Interest, U. K."?".[permanent dead link]

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