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Jules Joseph Lefebvre

{{Short description|French painter, educator and theorist}}

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| name = Jules Joseph Lefebvre

| image = Picture of Jules Joseph Lefebvre.jpg

| alt = A photo of Lefebvre taken no later than 1903

| caption = A photo of Lefebvre taken no later than 1903

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1836|03|14|df=y}}{{cite web|url=http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=188|title=Art Renewal Center Museum™ Artist Information for Jules Joseph Lefebvre|work=Art Renewal Center}}

| birth_place = Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1911|02|24|1836|03|14|df=y}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120032725 |title=A One-Picture Painter|newspaper=Evening News|issue=13,776|location=New South Wales, Australia|date=3 August 1911|access-date=6 March 2017|page=6|via=National Library of Australia}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| other_names = Jules Lefebvre

| occupation = Painter

| signature = Jules-Joseph Lefebvre signature.png

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Jules Joseph Lefebvre ({{IPA|fr|ʒyl ʒozɛf ləfɛvʁ|lang}}; 14 March 1836{{spaced ndash}}24 February 1911) was a French painter, educator and theorist.

Early life

File:Jules Lefebvre.jpg

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.{{Cite book|title=Artistic Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-century France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b6BgRGJO3KYC|first1=Peter|last1=Collier|first2=Robert|last2=Lethbridge|publisher=Yale University Press|location=London|year=1994|page=50|isbn=9780300060096}} 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,Oxford Art Online, "Lefebvre, Jules" Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart,[http://www.rusartnet.com/biographies/russian-artists/19th-century/late-19th-century/baron-ernst-friedrich-von-liphart Baron Ernst Friedrich von Liphart], Late 19th Century – 19th Century – Russian Artists – Biographies – RusArtNet.com Georges Rochegrosse,Waller, S. (ed.), Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise, Routledge, 2017, p. 119 the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an American Impressionist painter.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." Another pupil was the miniaturist Alice Beckington{{cite book|author-link1=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author1=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author2=Lori Zabar|title=American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHKoX40qL7EC&pg=PA244|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-357-9|pages=244–}} as was Laura Leroux-Revault, the daughter of his friend Louis Hector Leroux.{{Cite web |title=ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research) |url=https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=photoengraver,+photographer,+photographers,+photography+studio,+photogravurist,+photojournalist,+photolithographer,+photomontagist&nation=Brazilian&page=1&subjectid=500066323 |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=www.getty.edu}} Jules Benoit-Lévy entered his workshop at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00016557 "Benoit-Lévy, Jules (1866–1925), Painter, draughtsman, illustrator"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015182438/https://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00016557 |date=2019-10-15 }}, Benezit Dictionary of Artists

File:Sépulture de Jules LEFEBVRE - Cimetière de Montmartre.JPG

File:Jules Joseph Lefebvre - El Dolor de María Magdalena.jpg]]

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

File:Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Graziella, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg's 1852 novel Graziella)|alt=Oil painting of a young woman in a long, flow dress, sitting on a rock by a cliff and looking wistfully out to sea. Her right wrist has a manacle on it, and her hands play with a long length of chain beside her.]]

File:Clemence Isaure.jpg|alt=Oil painting of a woman from the torso up, facing left. She wears a golden laurel wreath in her long, flowing hair, and holds a scroll and sprig of yellow flowers in her left hand.|Clémence Isaure

File:1879 Jules Joseph Lefebvre - Diana surprised.jpg|Diana Surprised, 1879

File:Lady godiva full.jpg|alt=Oil painting of a naked woman on a horse being lead by a woman in servant's clothing along a street lined with tall, Tudor style buildings. The street is otherwise deserted, except for three doves which fly near the women.|Lady Godiva, 1890

File:La Vérité, par Jules Joseph Lefebvre.jpg|alt=Oil painting of a naked woman standing, facing the viewers. Her right hand extends above her head, holding a golden mirror, her left hand seems to be holding a stick or staff, and her right leg is bent, shifting weight onto her left hip.|La Vérité, 1870

File:Jules Lefèvre Vittoria Colonna.jpg|alt=Oil painting of a woman with long hair and a puffy white dress looking pensively at the viewers. She wears a golden laurel wreath and a gold pendant with a long chain around her neck.|Vittoria Colonna, 1861

File:Odalisque by Jules Lefebvre (1874).jpg|Odalisque, 1874

File:Psyché by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre.jpg|Psyché, 1883.

File:Vestale endormie by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre.jpg|Sleeping vestal virgin, 1902

File:Lefebvre, Jules Joseph — Sappho — 1884.jpg|Sappho 1884

Undated works

See also

References

External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20091024224727/http://www.theartwerx.org/lefebvre.html TheARTwerx – Lefebvre Gallery]: Comprehensive archive of 141 images
  • [http://www.jules-joseph-lefebvre.org Jules-Joseph-Lefebvre.org]: 42 images by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
  • [http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=188 Art Renewal Centre – Lefebvre Gallery]
  • [http://www.paintingiant.com/jules-joseph-lefebvre/ Jules Joseph Lefebvre], paintingiant.com

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