Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Paintings
Pandora
Griselidis
Morning Glory
An elderly Greek Woman
Fatima
Jeanne la Rousse
Edith Warren Miller
Dawn
A pensive moment
Graziella
The Red Cloak
Servant
An Allegory of Victory
Diana Surprised
Judith
The Grasshopper
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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
Jules Lefebvre: Vittoria Colonna, (1861)
Clémence Isaure
Graziella, 1878 (depicting the protagonist of Alphonse de Lamartine's novel Graziella)
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
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