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Jules Joseph Lefebvre

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Jules Joseph Lefebvre ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 14 March 1836Template:Spaced ndash24 February 1911) was a French painter, educator and theorist.

Early lifeEdit

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Jules Lefebvre in his studio

Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1836.<ref name=AR /> He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet.

CareerEdit

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).<ref name="Oxford" /> In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.

He was professor at the Académie Julian in Paris.<ref name="ARLVAF">Template:Cite book</ref> 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,<ref name="Oxford">Oxford Art Online, "Lefebvre, Jules"</ref> Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart,<ref>Baron Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, Late 19th Century – 19th Century – Russian Artists – Biographies – RusArtNet.com</ref> Georges Rochegrosse,<ref>Waller, S. (ed.), Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise, Routledge, 2017, p. 119</ref> the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an American Impressionist painter.<ref>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."</ref> Another pupil was the miniaturist Alice Beckington<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> as was Laura Leroux-Revault, the daughter of his friend Louis Hector Leroux.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Jules Benoit-Lévy entered his workshop at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.<ref>"Benoit-Lévy, Jules (1866–1925), Painter, draughtsman, illustrator" Template:Webarchive, Benezit Dictionary of Artists</ref>

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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.<ref name="AR" /><ref name="EVNW1911" />

Significant milestonesEdit

Selected worksEdit

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Graziella, 1878 (depicting the protagonist of Alphonse de Lamartine's 1852 novel Graziella)
  • Clemence Isaure.jpg

    Clémence Isaure

  • 1879 Jules Joseph Lefebvre - Diana surprised.jpg

    Diana Surprised, 1879

  • Lady godiva full.jpg

    Lady Godiva, 1890

  • La Vérité, par Jules Joseph Lefebvre.jpg

    La Vérité, 1870

  • Jules Lefèvre Vittoria Colonna.jpg

    Vittoria Colonna, 1861

  • Odalisque by Jules Lefebvre (1874).jpg

    Odalisque, 1874

  • Psyché by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre.jpg

    Psyché, 1883.

  • Vestale endormie by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre.jpg

    Sleeping vestal virgin, 1902

  • Lefebvre, Jules Joseph — Sappho — 1884.jpg

    Sappho 1884

Undated worksEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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