Jules Joseph Lefebvre

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Jules Joseph Lefebvre (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 14 March 1836Template:Spaced ndash24 February 1911) was a French painter, educator and theorist.

Early life

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Jules Lefebvre in his studio

Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1836.[1] 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).[2] In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.

He was professor at the Académie Julian in Paris.[3] 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,[2] Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart,[4] Georges Rochegrosse,[5] the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an American Impressionist painter.[6] Another pupil was the miniaturist Alice Beckington[7] as was Laura Leroux-Revault, the daughter of his friend Louis Hector Leroux.[8] Jules Benoit-Lévy entered his workshop at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[9]

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Grave of Jules Lefebvre, Montmartre Cemetery, Paris.
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The Sorrow of Mary Magdalene

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.[1][10]

Significant milestones

Selected works

Oil painting of a young woman in a long, flow dress, sitting on a rock by a cliff and looking wistfully out to sea. Her right wrist has a manacle on it, and her hands play with a long length of chain beside her.
Graziella, 1878 (depicting the protagonist of Alphonse de Lamartine's 1852 novel Graziella)

Undated works

See also

References

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  2. ↑ a b Oxford Art Online, "Lefebvre, Jules"
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  4. ↑ Baron Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, Late 19th Century – 19th Century – Russian Artists – Biographies – RusArtNet.com
  5. ↑ Waller, S. (ed.), Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise, Routledge, 2017, p. 119
  6. ↑ Kathleen Luhrs, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980: "... on to Paris and studied for a year at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre."
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  9. ↑ "Benoit-Lévy, Jules (1866–1925), Painter, draughtsman, illustrator" Template:Webarchive, Benezit Dictionary of Artists
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  11. ↑ https://en.mng.hu/artworks/ondine/
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