Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Jules Joseph Lefebvre (French: [ʒyl ʒɔzɛf ləfɛːvʁ]) (14 March 1834 – 24 February 1912) was a French figure painter, educator and theorist.
Early life
Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1834.[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 in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon. In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.
He was professor at the Académie Julian in Paris.[2] 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,[3] Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart,[4] Georges Rochegrosse, the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an American Impressionist painter.[5]
Many of his paintings are single figures of beautiful women. Among his best portraits were those of M. L. Reynaud and the Prince Imperial (1874).[3]
Lefebvre died in Paris on 24 February 1912.[1]
Significant milestones
- 1853 Student at the École des Beaux-Arts
- 1859 Second place Prix de Rome
- 1861 His Death of Priam wins the Prix de Rome
- 1870 Académie Julian professor
- 1870 Légion d'honneur, Officer, named Commander from 1898
- 1891 Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
Selected works
- 1861 The Death of Priam (Won the Prix de Rome), École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
- 1861 Diva Vittoria Colonna
- 1863 Boy Painting a Tragic Mask
- 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) (1870), oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The painting is contemporary with the first small scale model made by Lefebvre's fellow-Frenchman Frédéric Bartholdi for what became the Statue of Liberty, striking a similar pose, though fully clothed.
- 1870s Jeune femme à la mandoline (Girl with a Mandolin)
- 1870 Portrait du Prince Impérial
- 1872 Pandora
- 1872 La Cigale, National Gallery of Victoria
- 1874 Odalisque
- 1874 Slave Carrying Fruit (Ghent Museum)
- 1874 Portrait of Eugène Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
- 1875 Chloé, Young and Jackson Hotel, Melbourne
- 1876 Mary Magdalene in the Grotto, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
- 1877 Pandora
- 1878 Mignon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- 1878 Graziella, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- 1879 Diana
- 1879 Diana Surprised, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
- 1880 Portrait of Julia Foster Ward
- 1880 Housemaid, Pera Museum, Istanbul
- 1881 La Fiametta from Giovanni Boccaccio
- 1882 Pandora (II)
- 1882 Japonaise (A Japanese woman)
- 1883 Psyche
- 1884 The Feathered Fan
- 1884 Portrait of Edna Barger, private collection
- 1890 Lady Godiva
- 1890 Ophelia
- 1892 A Daughter of Eve
- 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
- Clémence Isaure
- La Fiancée (The Fiancée)
- Woman with an Orange
- Nymph with Morning Glory Flowers
- Fleurs des Champs
- L'Amour Blessé (Wounded Love)
- Mediterranean Beauty
- Portrait of a Lady
- Portrait of a Woman
- Young Woman with Morning Glories in Her Hair
- Works by Jules Lefebvre
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La jeune rieuse (1861), Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France.
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La Mort de Priam (1861), ENSBA, Paris.
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La Vérité (1870), Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
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La Cigale (1872), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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Chloé (1875), Young & Jackson, Melbourne.
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Servante (1880), Pera Museum, Istanbul.
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Odalisque (1874), Art Institute of Chicago.
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Japonaise (1882)
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Ophelia (1890)
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Lady Godiva (1891), Musée de Picardie, Amiens.
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Nymph with Morning Glory Flowers
Pupils
Lefebvre's students included:
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References
- 1 2 "Art Renewal Center Museum™ Artist Information for Jules Joseph Lefebvre". Art Renewal Center.
- ↑ Collier, Peter; Lethbridge, Robert (1994). Artistic Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-century France. London: Yale University Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780300060096.
- 1 2 Oxford Art Online, "Lefebvre, Jules"
- ↑ http://www.rusartnet.com/biographies/russian-artists/19th-century/late-19th-century/baron-ernst-friedrich-von-liphart
- ↑ 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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