Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel was born in Montpellier, France. His oil
paintings are focused on historical, classical and religious
subjects. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. In 1845,
the young artist won the Grand Prix de Rome. Cabanel was elected a
member of the Institut 1863 and appointed professor at the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts in the same year. Cabanel won the Grande Médaille
d'Honneur at the Salons of 1865, 1867 and 1878. He was closely
connected to the Paris Salon: "He was elected regularly to the
Salon jury and his pupils could be counted by the hundred at the
Salons. Through them, Cabanel did more than any other artist of his
generation to form the character of belle époque French painting"
(Dictionary of Art (1996) vol. 5, pp. 341-344). A great academic
painter, his "Birth of Venus" is one of the most known 19th century
paintings. The picture was bought by the emperor Napoleon III and
there´s a copy in the U.S. At the Metropolitain Museum of Art in
New York City. Althought it is not the original. It is a smaller
replica painted in 1875 for a banker, John Wolf. It was gifted to
them by Wolf in 1893.
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