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AlexandreCabanel(French:[kabanl]28September
182323January1889)wasaFrenchpainterbornin
Montpellier,Hrault.Hepaintedhistorical,classical
andreligioussubjectsintheacademicstyle.Hewas
alsowellknownasaportraitpainter.Accordingto
DiccionarioEnciclopedicoSalvat,Cabanelisthebest
representativeoftheL'artpompierandNapoleonIII's
preferredpainter.[1]

AlexandreCabanel

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Life
Pupils
Selectedworks
Gallery
References
Externallinks

Life
CabanelenteredthecoledesBeauxArtsinParisat
theageofseventeen,andstudiedwithFranois
douardPicot.HeexhibitedattheParisSalonforthe
firsttimein1844,andwonthePrixdeRome
scholarshipin1845attheageof22.[2]Cabanelwas
electedamemberoftheInstitutein1863.Hewas
appointedprofessoratthecoledesBeauxArtsin
1864andtaughtthereuntilhisdeath.[3]

Selfportrait(1852)
Born

28September1823
Montpellier,France

Died

23January1889(aged65)
Paris,France

Nationality

French

Education

FranoisdouardPicot

Knownfor

Painting

Notablework

BirthofVenus

Movement

Academicism

Awards

PrixdeRome

HewascloselyconnectedtotheParisSalon:"HewaselectedregularlytotheSalonjuryandhispupils
couldbecountedbythehundredattheSalons.Throughthem,Cabaneldidmorethananyotherartistof
hisgenerationtoformthecharacterofbellepoqueFrenchpainting".[4]Hisrefusaltogetherwith
WilliamAdolpheBouguereautoallowtheimpressionistpainterdouardManetandmanyotherpainters
toexhibittheirworkintheSalonof1863ledtotheestablishmentoftheSalondesRefussbythe
Frenchgovernment.CabanelwontheGrandeMdailled'HonneurattheSalonsof1865,1867,and
1878.
Asuccessfulacademicpainter,his1863paintingTheBirthofVenusisoneofthebestknownexamples
of19thcenturyacademicpainting.ThepicturewasboughtbytheemperorNapoleonIIIthereisalsoa
smallerreplica(paintedin1875forabanker,JohnWolf)attheMetropolitanMuseumofArtinNew
YorkCity.ItwasgiventothembyWolfin1893.

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Pupils
Hispupilsincluded:
RodolfoAmoedo
HenryBacon
GeorgeRandolphBarse
JeanEugneBuland
JeanJosephBenjaminConstant
VlahoBukovac
CharlesBulteau
GastonBussire
LouisCapdevielle
EugneCarrire
FernandCormon
PierreAugusteCot
KenyonCox
douardDebatPonsan
mileFriant
FranoisGuiguet
JulesBastienLepage
FranoisFlameng
CharlesFouqueray
FrankFowler
HenriGervex
CharlesLucienLandre
HenriLeSidaner
AristideMaillol
douardAntoineMarsal
LouisMettling
JooMarquesdeOliveira
JanMonchablon
GeorgesMoreaudeTours
HenriGeorgesCausMorisset
HenriPinta
HenriRegnault
IakovosRizos
LouisRoyer
JeanJacquesScherrer
AntnioSilvaPorto
JosephNolSylvestre
SolomonJosephSolomon
JeanGuillaumeRosier
PaulTavernier
FranoisThvenot
JosFerrazdeAlmeidaJnior
tienneTerrus
AdolpheWillette

Selfportrait(1847)

AlexandreCabanel,ca.1865.
PhotographbyCharlesReutlinger
(?)

Selectedworks
TheDeathofMoses(1851),DaheshMuseum,NewYorkCity.NewYork,USA
NymphandSatyr(NympheetSatyr,1860),Privatecollection
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TheBirthofVenus(1863),Mused'Orsay,
Paris
TheDeathofFrancescadaRiminiandPaolo
Malatesta(1870),Mused'Orsay,Paris
LaComtessedeKeller(1873),Mused'Orsay,
Paris
Phdre(1880),MuseFabre,Montpellier
Ophelia(1883),Privatecollection
RuthglanantdansleschampsdeBooz,
(1886),MuseGarinet,Chlonsen
Champagne
TheBirthofVenus(1863)
LadyCurzon(1887),KedlestonHall,
England,[5]
PreparatorystudyofCleopatraforCleopatraTesting
PoisonsonCondemnedPrisoners,MusedesBeauxArts,
Bziers
CleopatraTestingPoisonsonCondemnedPrisoners
(1887),RoyalMuseumofFineArts,Antwerp
EveAftertheFall,PrivateCollection
TheExpulsionofAdamandEvefromtheGardenof
Paradise,PrivateCollection
NapoleonIII
AlexandreCabanelDeathofMoses
Thamar

Gallery

FallenAngel(1847)

Thedeathof
FrancescadaRimini
andPaoloMalatesta
(1870)

Thedaughterof
Jephthah(1879)

Echo(1874)

Phaedra(1880)

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Harmonie(1877)

Ophelia(1883)

Albayd(1884)

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CleopatraTesting
Poisonson
CondemnedPrisoners
(1887)

PortraitofCountessE.
AVorontsova
Dashkova

NapoleonIII

Pandora(1873),The
WaltersArtMuseum

References
1.DiccionarioEnciclopedicoSalvat,1982,Barcelona
2.Facos,Michelle(2011).AnIntroductiontoNineteenthCenturyArt.NewYork:Routledge.p.282.
3.vanHook,Bailey(1996).AngelsofArt:WomenandArtinAmericanSociety,18761914.UniversityPark,
PA:PennsylvaniaStateUniversityPress.p.28.
4.DictionaryofArt(1996)vol.5,pp.341344
5.MaryLeiter(1887),Derbyshire,England,KedlestonHallNationalTrustforPlacesofHistoricInterest,U.
K."?".

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