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'''Jules Joseph Lefebvre''' ({{star}}14 March 1836 – {{dag}}24 February 1911) was a French painter, educator and theorist. | '''Jules Joseph Lefebvre''' ({{star}}14 March 1836 – {{dag}}24 February 1911) was a French painter, educator and theorist. | ||
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| Jules Joseph Lefebvre | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | Mar 14, 1836 Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France |
| Died | Feb 24, 1911 - at age 75 Paris, France |
| Occupation: | Artist (Oil paintings) |
Jules Joseph Lefebvre (✦14 March 1836 – †24 February 1911) was a French painter, educator and theorist.
Early life
Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1836. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet.
Career
He won the prestigious Prix de Rome with his painting The Death of Priam in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits at the Paris Salon. Many of his paintings feature single figures of beautiful women. Among the portraits considered his best were those of M. L. Reynaud and the Prince Imperial (1874). In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.
He served as a professor at the Académie Julian in Paris. Lefebvre is primarily esteemed as an exceptional and compassionate educator, having instructed over 1,500 students, many of whom were Americans. His distinguished pupils include Fernand Khnopff, Kenyon Cox, Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, Georges Rochegrosse, the Scottish-born landscape artist William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who gained recognition as an American Impressionist painter. Additionally, one of his students was the miniaturist Alice Beckington, along with Laura Leroux-Revault, the daughter of his associate Louis Hector Leroux. Jules Benoit-Lévy also participated in his workshop at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Lefebvre died in Paris on 24 February 1911 and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery with a bas-relief depiction of his painting La Vérité on his grave.
- Paintings by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
L'amour Blesse (Love Hurts)
The Truth (1870)
La Cigle (1872)
![Diana Surprised[Note 1]](/a/images/thumb/d/d5/Diane_surprise_%28Diana_sorprendida%29.jpg/707px-Diane_surprise_%28Diana_sorprendida%29.jpg)
Diana Surprised[Note 1]
Psyché (1883)
Sappho (1884)
Lady Godiva (1890)
Odalisque after Lefebre (1894)
![Diana Surprised[Note 1]](/a/File:Diane_surprise_(Diana_sorprendida).jpg)
Notes
- ↑ Diana Surprised (French: Diane surprise) is an 1879 oil painting by Jules Joseph Lefebvre. It depicts Diana and her attendants trying to cover themselves are being surprised while bathing naked. Lefebvre didn't feel it was complete in time for the Exposition Universelle of 1878, but it was featured at the Salon of 1879 at the Louvre in Paris. Today it is in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Argentina.
External links
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Jules_Joseph_Lefebvre ]
- TheARTwerx – Lefebvre Gallery: Comprehensive archive of 141 images
- Jules-Joseph-Lefebvre.org: 42 images by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
- Art Renewal Centre – Lefebvre Gallery
- Jules Joseph Lefebvre, paintingiant.com
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