Art, literature & historyAlexandre Cabanel
1823–1889
Selected artwork
Napoleon III
ca. 1865
Walters Art Museum
Other names (4)
a. cabanel, Alexander Cabanel, alex cabanel, Cabanel
Biography
Alexandre Cabanel (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ(ə) kabanɛl]; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire."
Cabanel was the son of a modest carpenter, and he began his apprenticeship at the Montpellier School of Fine Arts in the class of Charles Matet, curator of the Musée Fabre. Equipped with a scholarship, he moved to Paris in 1839.
Cabanel entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen, in 1840, where he studied with François-Édouard Picot.
After two failures, with the paintings Cincinnatus receiving the ambassadors of Rome, in 1843, and Christ in the Garden of Olives, in 1844, he won the Prix de Rome scholarship, in 1845 at the age of 22. He would be a resident of the Villa Medici until 1850.
Cabanel was both a history painter and a genre painter, and he evolved over the years towards romantic themes, like Albaydé (1848), inspired by Les Orientales, by Victor Hugo (1829).
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- François-Édouard Picoteditorial inference
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Museums & collections
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- The Metropolitan Museum of Art6 recorded works
- bibliothèque-musée Inguimbertine — Carpentras5 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago3 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay3 recorded works
- musée Bertrand — Châteauroux2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Béziers2 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris2 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre2 recorded works
- musée Fabre — Montpellier2 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art2 recorded works
- Walters Art Museum2 recorded works
- maison de Victor Hugo — Paris1 recorded work
- musée d'art, histoire et archéologie d'Evreux — Evreux1 recorded work
- musée de la musique — Paris1 recorded work
- musée de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts — Paris1 recorded work
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie — Troyes1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts Jules Chéret — Nice1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nancy1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Cambrai1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Châlons-en-Champagne1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Hyères1 recorded work
- musée national du château de Compiègne — Compiègne1 recorded work
- Nationalmuseum1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work