Félix-Joseph Barrias

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Portrait de Félix-Joseph Barrias , Smithsonian Institution , Washington

Felix Joseph Barrias (born September 13, 1822 in Paris ; † January 24, 1907 there ) was a French history painter .

Life

Felix-Joseph Barrias - A Gaul and His Daughter Imprisoned in Rome

He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Léon Cogniet . This was followed by a stay in Rome.

He achieved his first success in 1844 with the picture of Cincinnatus receiving the Roman embassy . Of his later paintings in an antique style, the most outstanding are: Sappho (1847), the Exiles of Tiberius (1851, Musée du Luxembourg ), Dante (1853, Museum in Tarbes ), Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel , the landing of the French Army in the Crimea (Museum in Versailles ), the death of Chopin, the triumph of Venus and Camille Desmoulins in the Palais Royal . Monumental representations of him are in the Church of St. Eustache and in the New Opera (the harmony and the dramatic, erotic and rural music) in Paris.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 2. Leipzig 1905, p. 396
personal data
SURNAME Barrias, Félix-Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barrias, Felix Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French history painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1907
Place of death Paris