Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
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Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (7 November 1828
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Life
Baudry was born in 1828 in La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendée. He studied art under Michel Martin Drolling and enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in 1845.[1] He won the Prix de Rome in 1850[2] for his picture of Zenobia found on the banks of the Araxes.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
His talent from the first revealed itself as strictly academical, full of elegance and grace, but somewhat lacking originality. In the course of his residence in Italy Baudry derived strong inspiration from Italian art with the mannerism of Correggio, as was very evident in the two works he exhibited in the Salon of 1857, which were purchased for the Luxembourg: The Martyrdom of a Vestal Virgin and The Child.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
His Leda, St John the Baptist, and a Portrait of Beul, exhibited at the same time, took a first prize that year. Throughout this early period Baudry commonly selected mythological or fanciful subjects, one of the most noteworthy being The Pearl and the Wave (1862).
Once only did he attempt an historical picture, Charlotte Corday after the assassination of Marat (1861); and returned by preference to the former class of subjects or to painting portraits of illustrious men of his day: Guizot, Charles Garnier, Edmond About.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[3]
Baudry's chief legacies were his mural decorations, which show imagination and a artistic gift for color, as may be seen in the frescoes in the Paris Court of Cassation, at the château de Chantilly, and some private residences the Hôtel Fould and Hôtel Paiva.
The decorations of the foyer of the Opera Garnier are regarded as his finest achievement.[2] These, more than thirty paintings in all, and among them compositions figurative of dancing and music, occupied the painter for ten years.[2] Baudry was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts, succeeding Jean-Victor Schnetz.
In the United States, Baudry painted two ceilings in the William K. Vanderbilt House in New York.[2][4]
Baudry died in Paris in 1886.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris with a huge and highly sculptural monument.
Honours
- 1878 : Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium[5]
Legacy
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The statue of Baudry at La Roche-sur-Yon (1897) is by Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Gallery
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Euterpe (détail) at the Grand foyer of the Opera Palais.
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Venus and Cupid, 1849
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The Pearl and the Wave, 1862, Prado
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Crouching Nude Male Figure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1864–74
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Seated Male Nude (recto); Crouching Male Nude (verso) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1864–74
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Study for the Muse Thalia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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See also
References and sources
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- ↑ Larousse, Pierre (1869). Grand Dictionnaire Universel [du XIXe Siecle] Francais: A-Z 1805-76. France: Administration du Grand dictionnaire universel. p. 117.
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- Sources
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- H. Delaborde, Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Baudry (1886); Ch. Ephrussi, Baudry, sa vie et son oevre (1887). (H. FR.)
- Grunchec, P. (1985). The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the École des Beaux-Arts, 1797-1863. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. Template:ISBN.
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