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Alexandre Cabanel (
28 September 1823–
23 January 1889) was a
French painter.
Cabanel was born in
Montpellier,
Hérault. 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
Napoleon III's preferred painter.
He entered the
École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen.
Cabanel studied with
François-Édouard Picot and exhibited at the
Paris Salon for the first time in 1844, and won the
Prix de Rome scholarship in 1845 at the age of twenty two. Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863 and appointed professor at the
École des Beaux-Arts in the same year.
Cabanel won the Grande Médaille d'Honneur at the Salons of 1865, 1867, and 1878.
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" . His refusal together with
William-Adolphe Bouguereau to allow the
impressionist painter
Édouard Manet and other painters to exhibit their work in the Salon of 1863 lead to the establishment of the
Salon des Refusés.
A successful academic painter, his 1863 painting
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's also a smaller replica (painted in 1875 for a banker, John Wolf) at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City. It was gifted to them by Wolf in 1893.
Pupils
His pupils include:
List of selected works
The Death of Moses (1851)- Dahesh Museum, New York City. New York, USA
Nymph and Satyr (Nymphe et Satyr, 1860) - Private collection
The Birth of Venus (1863)- Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (1870) - Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
La Comtesse de Keller (1873) -, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Phèdre (1880) - Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Ophelia (1883) - Private collection
Lady Curzon (1887) -Kedleston Hall, England,
Prepatory study of Cleopatra for Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners -Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers,
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (1887) - Private collection
Eve After the Fall - Private Collection
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Paradise - Private Collection
Gallery
Image:Alexandre Cabanel 001.jpg|The death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (1870)
Image:Alexandre Cabanel - Harmonie.jpg|Harmonie (1877)
Image:Alexandre Cabanel - The Daughter of Jephthah (1879, Oil on canvas).JPG|The daughter of Jephthah (1879)
Image:Alexandre Cabanel - Phèdre.jpg|Phaedra (1880)
Image:Alexandre Cabanel, Ophelia.JPG|Ophelia (1883)
Image:Alexandre Cabanel - Albayde.jpg|Albaydé (1884)
Image:Alexandre Cabanel - Cléopatre essayant des poisons sur des condamnés à mort.jpg|Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (1887)
Image:Alexandre Cabanel - Echo.jpg|Echo (1887)
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