Paul Chenavard
Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (9 December 1808[1] – 1895, Paris) was a French painter.
Life[]
Entering the École des beaux-arts en 1825, he studied in the studio of Ingres alongside his friend Joseph Guichard, then in the studios of Hersent and Delacroix.
Under the influence of German philosophy and painting, he considered art's aim had to be humanitarian and civilising. He was buried in the new Cimetière de Loyasse at Lyon.
Works[]
La Palingénésie sociale
or La Philosophie de l'histoire.
Oil painting. 303 x 380 cm.Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
or La Philosophie de l'histoire.
Oil painting. 303 x 380 cm.Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
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- Hell (1846), Montpellier, Musée Fabre
- The Continence of Scipio (1848) Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts
- Divina Tragedia (between 1865 and 1869) Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Bibliography[]
- Joseph C. Sloane, Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard: Artist of 1848, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 214 p.
- , Histoire des artistes vivants français et étrangers, Paris, 1856
- Théophile Gautier : description des peintures de Chenavard au Panthéon sur : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k109148c/f4.image.r=.langFR
Notes[]
- ^ After Joseph C. Sloane, "Paul Chenavard", The Art Bulletin, vol 33, n° 4, December 1951, p. 240-258, which notes p. 241, which notes that some sources have him born in 1807.
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