Paintings
Paintings
Servant
The Red Cloak
Chloe
Japonese
La Cigale
Mary Magdalene In The Cave
Mediterranean Beauty
Pandora
Portrait of Julia Foster Ward
Truth
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Jules Joseph Lefebvre (Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, 14 March 1836 – Paris, 24 February 1911) was a French figure painter.
Lefebvre entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. 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 an instructor at the Académie Julian in Paris. He is chiefly important as an excellent and sympathetic teacher who numbered many Americans among his 1500 or more pupils. Some of his famous students were the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, as well as Georges Rochegrosse, Félix Vallotton, and many more. He was long a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.
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). Among his many decorations were a first-class medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 and the medal of honor in 1886. He was a Commander of the Legion of Honor and a member of the Institut de France.
Significant milestones
1853 Student at the École des Beaux-Arts
1859 Second place Prix de Rome
1861 His Death of Primam 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)
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 Reveil de Diane
1869 Portrait of Alexandre Dumas
1870 La Vérité (The Truth)
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 Eugene Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
1875 Chloé, Young & Jackson pub, 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
1881 La Fiametta from Giovanni Boccaccio
1882 Pandora (II)
1882 Japonaise (A Japanese)
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
Clemence Isaure
La Fiancée (The Fiancée)
Woman with an Orange
Nymph with morning glory flowers
Fleurs des Champs (Flora) Oil. Private
L'amour Blesse (Wounded Love)
Mediterranean Beauty
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of a Woman
Young Woman with Morning Glories in Her Hair
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