Paul Chenavard Explained

Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (9 December 1808^[1] – 1895) was a French painter.

Life

Entering the École des beaux-arts en 1825, he studied in the studio of Ingres alongside his friend Joseph Guichard, then in the studios of Hersent and Delacroix.

The influence of German philosophy and painting led him to believe that art's aim had to be humanitarian and civilising.He died in Paris in 1895 and was buried in the new Cimetière de Loyasse at Lyon.

Works

• Hell (1846), Montpellier, Musée Fabre
• The Continence of Scipio (1848) Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts
• Divina Tragedia (between 1865 and 1869) Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Bibliography

• Joseph C. Sloane, Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard: Artist of 1848, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 214 p.
• Théophile Silvestre, Histoire des artistes vivants français et étrangers, Paris, 1856
• Théophile Gautier : description des peintures de Chenavard au Panthéon sur : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k109148c/f4.image.r=.langFR

Notes and References

1. After Joseph C. Sloane, "Paul Chenavard", The Art Bulletin, vol 33, n° 4, December 1951, p. 240–258, which notes p. 241, which notes that some sources have him born in 1807.