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Biography of Alexandre Cabanel 1823-1889
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On 28 Sep 1823 Alexandre Cabanel was born.
1847. Alexandre Cabanel (age 23). "Fallen Angel".
1847. Alexandre Cabanel (age 23). "Albaydé".
1870. Alexandre Cabanel (age 46). "The death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta".
1873. Alexandre Cabanel (age 49). "Pandora".
1873. Alexandre Cabanel (age 49). Portrait of the Countess de Keller.
1873. Alexandre Cabanel (age 49). "The Birth of Venus".
1874. Alexandre Cabanel (age 50). "Echo".
Echo: Echo is an Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron.
1874. Alexandre Cabanel (age 50). "Thamar".
1880. Alexandre Cabanel (age 56). "Phaedra".
1883. Alexandre Cabanel (age 59). "Ophelia".
1883. Alexandre Cabanel (age 59). "Ruth glanant dans les champs de Booz" aka Ruth harvesting in the fields of Booz.
1887. Alexa
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Alexandre Cabanel
French painter (1823–1889)
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.[1] He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter[2] and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire."[3]
Biography
Cabanel was the son of a modest carpenter, and he began his apprenticeship at the Montpellier School of Fine Arts in the class of Charles Matet, curator of the Musée Fabre. Equipped with a scholarship, he moved to Paris in 1839.
Cabanel entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen, in 1840, where he studied with François-Édouard Picot.
After two failures, with the paintings Cincinnatus receiving the ambassadors of Rome, in 1843, and Christ in the Garden of Olives, in 1844, he won the Prix de Rome scholarship, in 1845 at the age of 22.[4] He would be a resident of the Vil
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The Legacy of a 19th Century Romantic Master
Introduction
Self-Portrait at 26 Years. Oil on canvas, 24½ x 21⅛. Private collection, Paris.
Alexandre Cabanel is one of the great French artists of the 19th century. He was a product of the finest teaching tradition available at the time, that provided by the private ateliers of great artists. His work displays originality and sincerity coupled with a profound sense of respect for the great art of the past. His drawing is fine, expressive, and informed by personal selection, knowledge, and a quest for both natural and ideal beauty. His design is sophisticated, and his color is harmonious, natural, and decorative, as necessary. His method varies from suave enamel to virtuoso paint handling. He was an artist of integrity, a confident and skillful master of his craft.
Early Years
Alexandre Cabanel entered the world on September 28, 1823, in the town of Montpellier in southern France, just off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. During the Reformation the town had been a stronghold of Protestant resistance to the Catho
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