Name Jules Lefebvre | Period Academic art | |
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Died February 24, 1911, Paris, France Education Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts Artwork Chloe, Odalisque, The Grasshopper, The Death of Priam | ||
Jules joseph lefebvre pre raphaelite
Jules Joseph Lefebvre ([ʒyl ʒɔzɛf ləfɛːvʁ]) (14 March 1836 – 24 February 1911) was a French figure painter, educator and theorist.
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- Jules joseph lefebvre pre raphaelite
- Jules joseph lefebvre a collection of 57 paintings hd
- Early life
- Career
- Significant milestones
- Selected works
- Undated works
- Pupils
- References
Jules joseph lefebvre a collection of 57 paintings hd
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 in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon. In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.
He was professor at the Académie Julian in Paris. 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, Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, Georges Rochegrosse, the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an American Impressionist painter. Another pupil was the miniaturist Alice Beckington.
Many of his paintings are single figures of beautiful women. Among his best portraits were those of M. L. Reynaud and the Prince Imperial (1874).
Lefebvre died in Paris on 24 February 1911.
Significant milestones
Selected works
Undated works
Pupils
Lefebvre's students included: