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Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (; 14 March 183624 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). 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 as was Laura Leroux-Revault, the daughter of his friend Louis Hector Leroux. Jules Benoit-Lévy entered his workshop at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

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.

Significant milestones

Selected works

  • 1861 The Death of Priam (won the Prix de Rome), École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1861
  • 1863
  • 1864 Roman Charity
  • 1865 Portrait d'Antonio, modèle italien
  • 1866 Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi
  • 1868 Reclining Nude, Musée d'Orsay
  • 1869 Le Réveil de Diane
  • 1869 Portrait of Alexandre Dumas
  • 1870 La Vérité (The Truth), Musée d'Orsay
  • 1870s (Girl with a Mandolin)
  • 1870 Portrait du Prince Impérial
  • 1872
  • 1872 , National Gallery of Victoria (Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1872, no. 970; collection of Milton Latham (1827–82), San Francisco, before 1878; by whom sold, New York, 1879; collection of Daniel Catlin, St Louis, Missouri, 1879–1893; by whom gifted to the St Louis Museum of Fine Arts, 1893–1945; deaccessioned and sold, c. 1945; collection of Julian Sterling, Melbourne, by 1984–2005; from whom purchased for the Felton Bequest, 2005.)
  • 1874
  • 1874 Slave Carrying Fruit (Ghent Museum)
  • 1874 Portrait of Eugène Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
  • 1875 , Young and Jackson Hotel, Melbourne
  • 1876 , Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
  • 1877
  • 1878 Mignon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • 1878 Graziella, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • 1879
  • 1879 Diana Surprised, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
  • 1880 , Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
  • 1880 , Pera Museum, Istanbul
  • 1881 La Fiametta from Giovanni Boccaccio
  • 1881 , Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
  • 1882
  • 1882 (A Japanese woman)
  • 1883 Psyché
  • 1884 The Feathered Fan
  • 1884 , private collection
  • 1890 Lady Godiva
  • 1890
  • 1892
  • 1892
  • 1896 Portrait of a Lady (II)
  • 1898 Amor beim Schärfen seiner Pfeile (Love sharpening its arrows)
  • 1901 Alexander Agassiz
  • 1901 Yvonne (formerly Musée du Luxembourg), Portrait of Lefebvre's daughter

Undated works

  • (Wounded Love)

See also

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