Echo alexandre cabanel biography
Echo alexandre cabanel biography
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Alexandre Cabanel
French painter (1823–1889)
Alexandre Cabanel (French:[kabanɛl]; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style.[1] He was also well known as a portrait painter.
He was Napoleon III's preferred painter[2] and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire."[3]
Biography
Cabanel was the son of a modest carpenter, and he began his apprenticeship at the Montpellier School of Fine Arts in the class of Charles Matet, curator of the Musée Fabre.
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Equipped with a scholarship, he moved to Paris in 1839.
Cabanel entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen, in 1840, where he studied with François-Édouard Picot.
After two failures, with the paintings Cincinnatus receiving the ambassadors of Rome, in 1843, and Christ in the Garden of Olives, in 1844, he won the Prix