Art, literature & historyJules Joseph Lefebvre
1836–1911
Selected artwork
Mary Magdalene in a Grotto
1876
Hermitage Museum
Other names (7)
J. Lefebvre, jules lefebre, Jules Lefebvre, Jules Le Febvre, jules lefevre, Lefebvre, Lefevre
Biography
Jules Joseph Lefebvre (French: [ʒyl ʒozɛf ləfɛvʁ]; 14 March 1836 – 24 February 1911) was a French painter, educator and theorist.
Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1836. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet.
He won the prestigious Prix de Rome with his The Death of Priam in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon. Many of his paintings are single figures of beautiful women. Among the portraits of his considered the best were those of M. L. Reynaud and the Prince Imperial (1874). In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.
He was professor at the Académie Julian in Paris. Lefebvre is chiefly important as an excellent and sympathetic teacher who numbered many Americans among his 1500 or more pupils. Among his famous students were Fernand Khnopff, Kenyon Cox, Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, Georges Rochegrosse, the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an US Impressionist painter.
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Influenced by
- Léon Cognieteditorial inference
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- Jean Francis Auburtineditorial inference
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- Rodolphe d' Erlangereditorial inference
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- Gwilt Jolleyeditorial inference
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- Félix Vallottoneditorial inference
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- Aniela Poraj-Biernackaeditorial inference
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- Laura Leroux-Revaulteditorial inference
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- Georges Rochegrosseeditorial inference
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Jules Joseph Lefebvre. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris2 recorded works
- Hermitage Museum1 recorded work
- musée Alexandre Dumas — Villers-Cotterêts1 recorded work
- musée Boucher de Perthes — Abbeville1 recorded work
- musée d'art et d'histoire Saint-Germain — Auxerre1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nantes1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Pau1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Valenciennes1 recorded work
- Musée d’Orsay1 recorded work
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art1 recorded work