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BIOGRAPHY - Alexandre Cabanel (1823 - 1889)
Alexandre Cabanel was one of mid-nineteenth France’s most well respected academic artists. During his lifetime, his reputation encompassed all types of painting, from portraits to religious scenes, and large interior décorations. Not surprisingly, this distinguished career began with a precociously early display of artistic talent. His early schooling in his hometown of Montpelier revealed a talent for drawing, and in 1834 at age ten, he was permitted to attend the local art school. Five years later, the municipal authorities gave him a grant to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he enrolled in the studio of François-Edouard Picot (1786-1868) in October 1839. Picot had trained in the prestigious studio of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), and continued to teach the neoclassical values associated with his mentor, albeit with more romantic subject matter
BiographiesAlexandre Cabanel (1823 – 1889) He was born in Montpellier, and, at the age of eleven, he was awarded a grant to train in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under François-Edouard Picot. He entered his first Salon show at the age of twenty. Two years later he won second place in the Prix de Rome, enabling him to attend lessons in Rome studying the classical academic themes. By the time Cabanel exhibited his most famous work, , in 1862, he had achieved widespread fame, including many awards, and important commissions including works for Napoleon and Ludwig II, the King of Bavaria. He was a bitter opponent of the Impressionists and represented exactly the kind of academic art that they despised. George Moore has a telling anecdote about this: “Somebody was saying he did not like Daumier, and Degas preserved silence for a long while. ‘‘ If you were to show Raphael” he said at last “ a Daumier, he would admire it, he would take off his hat, but if you were to show him a Cabanel he would say with a sigh, ‘ That is my fault! ‘ ” (Dana1.4:110). The
Alexandre Cabanel Biography | Oil Painting ReproductionsAlexandre Cabanel painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the Academic style, he was likewise notable as a portrait painter. Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art Pompier and Napoleon III's favored painter. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the young age of seventeen. Cabanel studied with noted painter François-Édouard Picot. His first exhibition was at the Paris Salon in 1844, he won the Prix de Rome scholarship the following year, at the young age of only twenty-two. Alexandre Cabanel was elected into the Institute in 1863 and became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1864, teaching there the rest of his life. Cabanel won the Grande Médaille d'Honneur at the Salons of 1865, 1867, and 1878. He was very closely associated to the Paris Salon. 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 est Copyright ©dadtori.pages.dev 2025 |