Jules Joseph Lefebvre

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Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Jules Joseph Lefebvre photo.jpg
Photo of Jules Joseph Lefebvre (prior to 1903)
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)
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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 The Death of Priam in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon. Many of his paintings are single figures of beautiful women. Among the portraits of his considered the best were those of M. L. Reynaud and the Prince Imperial (1874).[3] In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.

He was professor at the Académie Julian in Paris.[4] Lefebvre is chiefly important as an excellent and sympathetic teacher who numbered many Americans among his 1500 or more pupils. Among his famous students were Fernand Khnopff, Kenyon Cox,[3] Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart,[5] Georges Rochegrosse,[6] the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an American Impressionist painter.[7] Another pupil was the miniaturist Alice Beckington[8] as was Laura Leroux-Revault, the daughter of his friend Louis Hector Leroux.[9] Jules Benoit-Lévy entered his workshop at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[10]

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)

    L'amour Blesse (Love Hurts)

  • The Truth

    The Truth

  • Diana Surprised[Note 1]

    Diana Surprised[Note 1]

  • Odalisque after Lefebre (1894)

    Odalisque after Lefebre (1894)

  • Psyché, 1883.

    Psyché, 1883.

  • Lady Godiva

    Lady Godiva

Notes

  1. ↑ Diana Surprised (French: Diane surprise) is an 1879 oil painting by Jules Joseph Lefebvre.[1][2] 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 ]
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