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Alexandre Cabanel Biogrraphy

French Academic Classical painter and teacher
born 1823 - died 1889

Student of: François-Edouard Picot (1786-1868).
Teacher of: Jean Jules Badin (1843-after 1880), Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929), Émile Friant (1863-1932), Daniel Ridgway Knight

He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen. Alexandre Cabanel studied with François-Édouard Picot and exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1844, and won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1845 at the age of twenty two. Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863 and appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in the same year. Alexandre Cabanel won the Grande Médaille d'Honneur at the Salons of 1865, 1867, and 1878.

Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), French painter, was born at Montpellier, and studied in Paris, gaining the Prix de Rome in 1845. his pictures soon attracted attention, and by his Birth of Venus (1863), now in the Luxembourg, he became famous, being elected that year to the Institute. Alexandre Cabanel became the most popular portrait painter of the day, and his pupils included a number of famous artists.

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. Through them, Alexandre Cabanel did more than any other artist of his generation to form the character of belle époque French painting". His refusal together with William-Adolphe Bouguereau to allow the impressionist painter Édouard Manet and other artists to exhibit their work in the Salon of 1863 lead to the establishment of the Salon des Refusés. A successful academic painter, Alexandre Cabanel painting Birth of Venus is one of the best known examples of 19th century academic oil paintings. The picture was bought by the emperor Napoleon III; there is also a smaller reproduction (painted in 1875 for a banker, John Wolf) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.