Alexandre Cabanel
Self Portrait (1852)
Born	28 September 1823(1823-09-28) Montpellier, France
Died	23 January 1889 (aged 65)
Nationality	French
Field	Painting
Training	François-Édouard Picot
Movement	Academicism
Works	Birth of Venus
Awards	Prix de Rome

Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823–23 January 1889) was a French painter. Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Year 1823 ( MDCCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Montpellier ( Occitan Montpelhièr) is a City in the south of France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e François-Edouard Picot ( Paris, 10 October 1786 - Paris, 15 March 1868) was a French historic painter Academic art is a style of Painting and Sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities The Birth of Venus (French Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889 This article concerns the French government prize For similarly named prizes aimed at other countries' nationals see Prix de Rome (disambiguation. Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Year 1823 ( MDCCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e

Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. Montpellier ( Occitan Montpelhièr) is a City in the south of France. Hérault ( Occitan: Erau) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Hérault river. 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^[1]. L'art pompier, literally "Fireman Art" is a derisory late nineteenth century French term for large "official" Academic art paintings of the time Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte) (20 April 1808 9 January 1873 was the first President

He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen. The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts (ENSB-A is the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France. 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. François-Edouard Picot ( Paris, 10 October 1786 - Paris, 15 March 1868) was a French historic painter The Salon (Salon or rarely Paris Salon (French Salon de Paris) beginning in 1725 was the official Art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts This article concerns the French government prize For similarly named prizes aimed at other countries' nationals see Prix de Rome (disambiguation. Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863 and appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in the same year. École des Beaux-Arts ("School of Fine Arts" refers to a number of influential Art schools in France.

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. The Salon (Salon or rarely Paris Salon (French Salon de Paris) beginning in 1725 was the official Art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts Through them, Cabanel did more than any other artist of his generation to form the character of belle époque French painting" ^[2]. 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. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30 1825 – August 19 1905 was a French academic painter. Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s The Salon des Refusés, French for “exhibition of rejects” is generally an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously

A successful academic painter, his 1863 painting Birth of Venus is one of the best known examples of 19th century academic painting. The Birth of Venus (French Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889 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. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, The City of New York It was gifted to them by Wolf in 1893.

Contents 1 Pupils 2 List of selected works 3 Gallery 4 External links 5 References

Pupils

His pupils include:

List of selected works

• The Death of Moses (1851)- Dahesh Museum, New York City. Moses ( Latin: Moyses,; Greek: grc Mωυσής in both the Septuagint and the New Testament; Arabic: ar موسىٰ The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only Museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European Academic art of the New York, USA
• Nymph and Satyr (Nymphe et Satyr, 1860) - Private collection
• The Birth of Venus (1863)- Musée d'Orsay, Paris. In Greek mythology, satyrs (Σάτυροι Satyroi) are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus – " Satyresses quot The Birth of Venus (French Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889 The Musée d'Orsay is a Museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station the Gare Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city
• The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (1870) - Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (1255 – 1285 was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna. The Musée d'Orsay is a Museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station the Gare Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city
• La Comtesse de Keller (1873) -, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The Musée d'Orsay is a Museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station the Gare Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city
• Phèdre (1880) - Musée Fabre, Montpellier
• Ophelia (1883) - Private collection
• Lady Curzon (1887) -Kedleston Hall, England, ^[3]
• 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

The death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (1870)	Harmonie (1877)	The daughter of Jephthah (1879)	Phaedra (1880)
Ophelia (1883)	Albaydé (1884)	Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (1887)	Echo (1887)

External links

• Paintings of Alexandre Cabanel on Insecula

References

1. ^ Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, 1982, Barcelona
2. ^ Dictionary of Art (1996) vol. The Musée Fabre is a museum in the French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault département. Montpellier ( Occitan Montpelhièr) is a City in the south of France. Ophelia is a Fictional character in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Mary Victoria Curzon Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, CI ( Order of the Crown of India) nee Mary Victoria Leiter ( 27 May 1870 &ndash 18 July Kedleston Hall is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Béziers ( Besièrs in Occitan, and Besiers in Catalan) is a town in Languedoc, in the southwest of France. Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (1255 – 1285 was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna. Jephthah (also spelled Jephtha; from Hebrew יפתח Yiftach / Yipthaχ is a character in the Hebrew Bible 's Book This article is on the mythological figure For other meanings see Phaedra. Cleopatra VII Philopator (in Greek, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ; January 69 BC &ndash 30 BC was a Hellenistic ruler of Egypt In Greek mythology, Echo ( Greek: Ἠχώ was an Oread (a mountain Nymph) who loved her own voice 5, pp. 341-344)
3. ^ Mary Leiter (1887), Derbyshire, England, Kedleston Hall; National Trust for Places of Historic Interest, U. K. [1]

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