Jules Eugène Lenepveu
Jules Eugène Lenepveu , origin. Jules Eugène Lenepveu Boussaroque de Lafont , (born December 12, 1819 in Angers , † October 16, 1898 in Paris ) was a French painter.
Lenepveu studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with François-Édouard Picot . On the occasion of the major annual exhibition of the Paris Salon in 1847, Lenepveus' work “The Death of Vitellius” was awarded the Prix de Rome . Associated with the award was a scholarship that entitle the award winner to a longer stay at the Villa Medici in Rome .
Between 1873 and 1878 Lenepveu headed the Académie de France à Rome and was thus also in charge of the Villa Medici. Then he returned to France. There he died eight weeks before his 79th birthday on October 16, 1898.
reception
His mostly religious panel paintings and his wall paintings, both religious and profane, show a skilful composition and a very pleasant execution, but also a certain pettiness and mannerism. In addition to portraits , Lenepveus murals are particularly worth mentioning, for example in the choir of the chapel of the Ste-Marie hospice in Angers , in the Ste-Clotilde church or in St-Sulpice . But he also adorned secular buildings such as B. the dome of the Paris Opera with a cycle of the gods and goddesses of Olympus. André Malraux commissioned Chagall to redecorate the ceiling of the Paris Opera. Since Chagall did not want the work of another artist to be destroyed by his work, the new painting was painted on canvas in the tapestry manufacture in Paris and glued a few centimeters under the ceiling made by Lenepveu around 1873. Chagall worked on this painting from January to July 1964. The inauguration of the new opera ceiling took place on the evening of September 23, 1964.
Honors
- 1862 Knight of the Legion of Honor
- 1876 officer of the Legion of Honor
Works (selection)
- The martyrs in the catacombs (Luxembourg),
- Pius IX in the Sistine Chapel
- The Feast of Corpus Christi in Venice (1855),
- A Venetian Wedding (1857),
- Moses watered the sheep of the Midianite women (1857),
- The Holy Virgin on Golgotha (1861),
- Hylas stolen by the nymphs (1865)
literature
- Alain Bonnet (Ed.): Devenir peintre au XIX siècle. Baudry , Bouguereau , Lenepveu . Fage Editions, Lyon 2007, ISBN 978-2-84975-061-2 (book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lenepveu, Jules Eugène |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lenepveu Boussaroque de Lafont, Jules Eugène (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Angers |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1898 |
| Place of death | Paris |