Alexandre Cabanel

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Alexandre Cabanel (born September 28, 1823 in Montpellier , † January 23, 1889 in Paris ) was an academic French historical painter , member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and professor at the École des beaux-arts in Paris.

biography

Alexandre Cabanel, ca.1865
The grave of Alexandre Cabanel on the Cimetière Saint-Lazare in Montpellier.

Through his teacher François-Édouard Picot, Cabanel is in contact with the classical school of Jacques-Louis Davids and with his first pictures The Death of Moses (1852), The Saint Ludwig (1855) and others. a. still adhered to the strict academic rules, but showed a talent for drawing and composition within the same.

He approached the modern way of feeling in the painting The Widow of the Kapellmeister , who listens with her children to the sound of the organ on which the eldest daughter seems to be playing the deceased's works (1859). In the Florentine poet , who recites his poems to some men and women (1861), the figures from the early Renaissance period are of the highest nobility and pure grace. Cabanel only achieved lasting success when he switched to mythological subjects and thus to the representation of the naked.

In the treatment of the meat, he does not aim for a gripping natural truth and corporeality, rather he gives it a rosy tone, which, in addition to the lush lines, is reminiscent of the works of François Boucher and other masters of the Rococo . In his first picture of the species, the nymph abducted by the faun (1861), the coloring is even stronger; in his The Birth of Venus (1863), which is considered to be his main work, the tone is quite dull and soft. This picture was purchased for the imperial house.

At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 , Cabanel exhibited the colossal painting The Expulsion from Paradise , which King Ludwig II of Bavaria had commissioned and which is now in the Maximilianeum in Munich. Cabanel made use of the graceful decorative effect of his painting style when painting the Hotel Emile Pereires. He followed the French fresco painters of the 18th century, and so also in the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873 The Triumph of Flora (a colossal ceiling painting in oval shape, intended for a ceiling of the Louvre ) showed the method of composition and the rosy color of the same.

His death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta at the same exhibition was captivating despite the all-too-sought-after realism through the energy of conception. Cabanel was also very popular as a portrait painter, especially among the noble ladies, as he knew how to give the duchesses, countesses and marquises an interesting and distinguished appearance with his frosty, subdued coloring and skillfully reproducing the toilet in all whims of fashion Brush to follow. He was less happy with portraits of men, as in the portrait of Napoleon III. (1864). His last major work were moments from the life of St. Louis for the Pantheon.

In contrast to the Impressionists, Cabanel was slowly being forgotten. The Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne organized a comprehensive special exhibition in spring 2011 in collaboration with the fashion designer Christian Lacroix and several museums such as the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.

Selection of works

  • Albaydé (1848)

  • Birth of Venus (copy from 1875)

  • Napoleon III (1865)

  • The death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (c. 1870)

  • Olivia Peyton Murray Cutting (1887)

Panel and canvas painting :

  • 1840: Portrait of Alfred Bruyas , Montpellier , Musée Fabre
  • 1849: John the Baptist , Montpellier, Fabre Museum
  • 1851: The Death of Moses ( La Mort de Moïse ), New York , Dahesh Museum
  • 1856: Louis XIII. and Richelieu ( Louis XIII et Richelieu ), Paris , Palais du Luxembourg
  • 1860: Nymphe und Satyr ( Nymphe et Satyre ), private collection
  • 1863: The Birth of Venus ( Naissance de Vénus ), Paris, Musée d'Orsay
  • 1866: Repos de Ruth , former collection of the Empress Eugénie
  • 1867: Expulsion from Paradis ( Paradis perdu ) Munich , Maximilianeum
  • 1870: Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta ( Mort de Francesca de Rimini et de Paolo Malatesta ), Paris, Musée d'Orsay
  • 1873: Portrait of the Comtesse de Keller , Paris, Musée d'Orsay
  • 1876: Portrait of Catharine Lorillard Wofe , New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • 1880: Phaedra ( Phèdre ), Montpellier, Musée Fabre
  • 1883: Ophelia ( Ophélie ), private collection
  • 1887: Ruth glanant dans les champs de Booz , Musée Garinet, Châlons-en-Champagne .
  • 1887: Cléopatre essayant des poisons sur des condamnés à mort , Antwerp , Musée royal des Beaux-Arts
  • ???: Eva after the fall ( Eve après la chute ), private collection

Wall painting

  • 1861: Paris, Hôtel de Say
  • 1858/64: Paris, Hôtel Pereire
  • 1878: Life of St. Louis ( Vie de Saint Louis ), Paris, Panthéon

Student (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Alexandre Cabanel  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexandre Cabanel - The tradition of the beautiful. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, accessed March 23, 2011 (February 4 - May 15, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Cabanel, Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1889
Place of death Paris