Édouard Dubufe
{{short description|French painter}}
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Édouard Louis Dubufe ({{IPA|fr|edwaʁ lwi dybyf}}; 31 March 1819 – 11 August 1883) was a French portrait painter.
Biography
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Dubufe was born in Paris. His father was the painter Claude Marie Paul Dubufe, who gave him his first art lessons. Later he studied with Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-arts.Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th Edition (1888-1890) He was awarded the third-class medal at the "Salon des Artistes Français" in 1839.
In 1842, he married Juliette Zimmerman (the daughter of composer and pianist Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman) who was a sculptor. The composer Charles Gounod became Édouard's brother-in-law (and lifelong friend) when he married Juliette's sister Anna.{{cite web|url=http://www.charles-gounod.com/lettres.html|title=Lettres|work=charles-gounod.com}} During a stay in England, from 1848 to 1851, Dubufe discovered the great English portrait painters, who he would seek to emulate.
His official career as a portrait painter began in 1853 with portrayals of Emperor Napoléon III and the Empress Eugénie. That same year saw the birth of his son Guillaume, who would also become a well-known painter. In 1855, Juliette died in childbirth.
Dubufe continued to enjoy great success with the aristocracy, receiving a commission from the Emperor to paint the Congress of Paris in 1856. Later, the Empress asked for his assistance in decorating her "Salon Bleu" at the Tuileries Palace. In April 1866, the journal {{ill|L'Événement (journal français, 1848)|fr|lt=L'Événement}} ran an article by Émile Zola that criticized Dubufe's qualifications for acting as a judge at the Salon and suggested that he belonged to academic cliques that compromised his judgment.{{cite web|url=http://www.cahiers-naturalistes.com/pa...|title=Emuile Zola critique de Dubufe|work=googleusercontent.com}}
That same year, Dubufe remarried. He died in Versailles in 1883 after a long illness.
Works
File:Edouard-Louis Dubufe 001.jpg|Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of the French, represented in a ball gown, 1844
File:Anne-Arsene Charton (1827-1892), by Édouard-Louis Dubufe.jpg|Anne-Arsene Charton, 1849
File:Edouard Dubufe Congrès de Paris.jpg|''The Congress of Paris, 1856
File:Comtesse Marianna Walewska née Ricci.jpg|Comtesse Colonna Walewska, née Marianna Ricci, 1859
File:Jean Frédéric André Poupart, baron de Neuflize, et son frère.jpg|Jean Frédéric André Poupart, Baron de Neuflize, and his brother, 1859
File:Lovelace Abducting Clarissa Harlowe.jpg|Lovelace Abducting Clarissa Harlowe, 1867
File:Édouard-Louis Dubufe - Prince Vincenzo Ruffo of Sant'Antimo and his children.jpg|Prince Vincenzo Ruffo and his children, 1852
References
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Further reading
- Emmanuel Bréon, Claude-Marie, Édouard et Guillaume Dubufe: Portraits d'un siècle d'élégance parisienne, Délégation à l'action artistique de la Ville de Paris, 1988 {{ISBN|2-905118-15-6}}
External links
{{Commons category-inline|Édouard-Louis Dubufe|Édouard Dubufe}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Édouard Dubufe |sopt=t}}
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/edouard-louis-dubufe/past-auction-results ArtNet: More works by Dubufe]
- {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Dubufe, Edouard|short=x}}
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Category:19th-century French painters
Category:Burials at the Cemetery of Notre-Dame, Versailles