![]() The picture was bought by the emperor Napoleon III there is also a smaller replica (painted in 1875 for a banker, John Wolf) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Cabanel won the Grande Médaille d'Honneur at the Salons of 1865, 1867, and 1878.Ī successful academic painter, his 1863 painting The Birth of Venus is one of the best-known examples of 19th-century academic painting. His refusal together with William-Adolphe Bouguereau to allow the impressionist painter Édouard Manet and many other painters to exhibit their work in the Salon of 1863 led to the establishment of the Salon des Refusés by the French government. Through them, Cabanel did more than any other artist of his generation to form the character of belle époque French painting". He was closely connected to the Paris Salon: "He was elected regularly to the Salon jury and his pupils could be counted by the hundred at the Salons. ![]() He was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1864 and taught there until his death. Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863. ![]() He exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1844, and won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1845 at the age of 22. ( June 2020)Ĭabanel entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen,Īnd studied with François-Édouard Picot. ![]()
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