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Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire."
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culture · French painter (1823–1889) · painter · university teacher · also Alexandre Cabanel, Alexander Cabanel, a. cabanel, alex cabanel, Cabanel
Born 28 September 1823 · Died 23 January 1889 · Q310437
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2025· 1 entry
2020· 1 entry
Artnet news: Alexandre Cabanel
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2018· 1 entry
Time Out: Vlaho Bukovac and Alexandre Cabanel: A Historic Encounter of Pupil and Teacher
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1892· 1 entry
By the architect Jean Camille Formigé, decorated with a marble bust by Paul Dubois and a sculpture, Regret, by Antonin Mercié
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1889· 1 entry
Died 1889-01-23.
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1884· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1884).
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And was elected associate of the Royal Academy of Belgium on 6 January 1887
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1881· 2 entries
And is now held at the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris
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During the presentation of Pertuiset, Le chasseur de lions, by Édouard Manet, and defended it by saying: "Gentlemen, there is not one among us who is capable of doing a head like that in the open air
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1875· 1 entry
For a banker, John Wolf, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City
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1869· 1 entry
But his second wife also died just four years later
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1867· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Saint Michael (1867).
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1855· 1 entry
Married Marie-Clémentine Legrand, with whom he had three children
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1850· 1 entry
Studied at French Academy in Rome (1846–1850).
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1845· 1 entry
Studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris (1840–1845).
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1843· 1 entry
And Christ in the Garden of Olives, in 1844, he won the Prix de Rome scholarship, in 1845 at the age of 22
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1840· 1 entry
Where he studied with François-Édouard Picot
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1823· 1 entry
Born 1823-09-28.
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