Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (Tournan, Gers, March 14, 1836 – Paris, February 24, 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. One of his famous students was the Scottish born landscape painter William Hart. Georges Rochegrosse, Félix Vallotton, the Americans Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, John Noble Barlow, Augustus Kenderdine, Irene E. Parmelee, Charles A. Platt were also his pupils. He was long a professor at the cole des BeauxArts.

His paintings are usually 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 firstclass 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.

ignificant 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

elected 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 (The Truth)
*1870s (Girl with a Mandolin)
*1870 "Portrait du Prince Impérial"
*1872
*1872
*1874
*1874 "Slave Carrying Fruit" (Ghent Museum)
*1874 "Portrait of Eugene Louis Napoleon Bonaparte"
*1875
*1876
*1877 "Pandora"
*1878 "Mignon", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
*1878 "Graziella", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
*1879 "Diana"
*1879 , Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
*1880
*1881 "La Fiametta" from Giovanni Boccaccio
*1882
*1882 (A Japanese)
*1883 "Psyche"
*1884 "The Feathered Fan"
*1884 , private collection
*1890
*1890
*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

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External links

* [http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=188 Art Renewal Centre - Lefebvre Gallery]
* [http://www.geocities.com/theartwerx/lefebvre.html TheARTwerx - Lefebvre Gallery]