Jules Lefebvre Explained

Jules Lefebvre
Birth Date:14 March 1836[1]
Birth Place:Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France
Death Date:[2]
Death Place:Paris, France
Other Names:Jules Lefebvre
Occupation:Painter
Signature:Jules-Joseph Lefebvre signature.png

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (pronounced as /fr/; 14 March 183624 February 1911) was a French painter, educator and theorist.

Early life

Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1836. 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 with his The Death of Priam in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon. Many of his paintings are single figures of beautiful women. Among the portraits of his considered the best were those of M. L. Reynaud and the Prince Imperial (1874). In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.

He was professor at the Académie Julian in Paris.[3] 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,[4] Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart,[5] Georges Rochegrosse,[6] the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an American Impressionist painter.[7] Another pupil was the miniaturist Alice Beckington[8] as was Laura Leroux-Revault, the daughter of his friend Louis Hector Leroux.[9] Jules Benoit-Lévy entered his workshop at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[10]

Lefebvre died in Paris on 24 February 1911 and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery with a bas-relief depiction of his painting La Vérité on his grave.

Significant milestones

Selected works

Undated works

See also

References

  1. Web site: Art Renewal Center Museum™ Artist Information for Jules Joseph Lefebvre. Art Renewal Center.
  2. News: A One-Picture Painter. Evening News. 13,776. New South Wales, Australia. 3 August 1911. 6 March 2017. 6. National Library of Australia.
  3. Book: Artistic Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-century France. Peter. Collier. Robert. Lethbridge. Yale University Press. London. 1994. 50. 9780300060096.
  4. Oxford Art Online, "Lefebvre, Jules"
  5. http://www.rusartnet.com/biographies/russian-artists/19th-century/late-19th-century/baron-ernst-friedrich-von-liphart Baron Ernst Friedrich von Liphart
  6. Waller, S. (ed.), Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise, Routledge, 2017, p. 119
  7. Kathleen Luhrs, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980: "... on to Paris and studied for a year at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre."
  8. Book: Carrie Rebora Barratt. Carrie Rebora Barratt. Lori Zabar. American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1 January 2010. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 978-1-58839-357-9. 244–.
  9. Web site: ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research) . 2024-04-10 . www.getty.edu.
  10. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00016557 "Benoit-Lévy, Jules (1866–1925), Painter, draughtsman, illustrator"
  11. Kovacs. Anna Zsófia. 2015–2016. L'Ondine de Jules Lefebvre : un nu académique français dans les collections du musée des Beaux-Arts. Bulletin du musée hongrois des Beaux-Arts. 120-121. 147–164.

External links

Comprehensive archive of 141 images

42 images by Jules Joseph Lefebvre

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