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Jules Joseph
Lefebvre
French Academic painter
born 14 March 1836 - died 24 February 1911

Student of: Léon Cogniet (1794-1880) in 1852.
Teacher of: Louis Abel-Truchet (1857-1918), Marcel André Baschet (1862-1941), Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951), Jean Bonnier (1882-), Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau (1837-1922), Jean Cottenet (active 1912-1937), Kenyon Cox (1856-1919),

Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942), Angèle Delasalle (1856-after 1938), Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) from circa 1876 to 1878, Edouard Edmond Doigneau (1865-), Frank Vincent Du Mond (1865-1951), Charles Jules Duvent (1867-1940), Edward Frederick Ertz (1862-1954), Rodolphe Fornerod (1877-after 1913), Joseph David Greenbaum (1864-1940), Childe Hassam (1859-1935), George Hitchcock (1850-1913), William Henry Hyde (1858-1943), Amédée Joullin (1862-1917), Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948), Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937), Gari Melchers (1860-1932), Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925), Elizabeth Nourse (1860-1938), Marie Magdelei Real Del Sarte (-1928), Robert Reid (1862-1929), Guy Rose (1867-1925), Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953), Elisabeth Sonrel (1874-), Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938).

Officer of: Légion d'Honneur (from 1870).
Commander of: Légion d'Honneur (from 1898).
Member of: Académie des Beaux-Arts (from 1891).
Professor at: Academie Julien (from 1870).
Student at: École des Beaux-Arts (from 1853).

A reviewer at the 1881 Paris Salon wrote the following about Jules-Joseph Lefèbvre: “It is sufficient to just mention his name in order to immediately evoke the memory and the image of the thousand adorable creatures of which Jules Joseph Lefèbvre is the father.... Jules Lefèbvre, better than anyone else caresses, with a brush both delicate and sure, the undulating contour of the feminine form.”[1]
Like a typical academic artist, Lefèbvre started his career with the traditional subject matter of histories and other narratives. It would not be till later in his career that Jules Joseph Lefèbvre would focus exclusively on the human figure in portraiture and especially the female nude, with great ability and success.

Lefèbvre was born on March 14th, 1836. Though his father was only a baker, Jules Joseph Lefèbvre nonetheless encouraged his son to pursue painting, sending him to study in Paris in 1852. There, Lefèbvre became a pupil of Léon Cogniet and a year later started attending the École des Beaux Arts. His debut at the Paris Salon was in 1855. Jules Joseph Lefèbvre then spent the next few years pursuing the coveted Prix de Rome (the main competition for young painters, which would win him five years of study in Rome and a reputation that would all but guarantee a successful career). In 1859 Jules Joseph Lefèbvre came close, placing second. Two years later the history painting The Death of Priam would win him first place.- Lefebvre Jules Joseph oil paintings reproductions France- Bio Lefebvre Jules Joseph oil painting France - reproduction oil paintings, oil painting reproduction of Lefebvre Jules Joseph and reproduction oil paintings Lefebvre Jules.

It would be during his stay in Rome that Jules Joseph Lefèbvre would find his individual artistic niche. Able to study the great Italian masters, Lefèbvre was fascinated by the Mannerist painters, especially Andrea del Sarto. Jules Joseph Lefèbvre copied his work avidly and demonstrated Andrea’s influence in his painting Boy Painting a Tragic Mask (1863)[2]. It was also during this time that his interest in the female nude began, painting his first in 1863. Among other works Jules Joseph Lefèbvre did in Rome, Jules Joseph Lefèbvre sent the narrative Roman Charity to the salon of 1864 and painted Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi in 1866. The latter narrative, however, was ill received by experts, arousing overwhelming criticism. That same year his parents and one of his sisters died. These negative events in both his personal and professional life sent him into severe depression.[2]

He emerged from his depression and came back to Paris with a different approach to art and a change of interest in subject matter. Jules Joseph Lefèbvre apparently became disenchanted with the traditional formulaic approach to painting, instead turning towards more precise rendering from life.[2] In 1868 Jules Joseph Lefèbvre exhibited a Reclining Nude at the Salon, which unlike his last significant work, won him much praise.[2] Two years later, his allegory of Truth became his first great success.[1] A beautiful young woman holds up a mirror (the conventional symbol of truth). This symbol, though, is at the very top of the painting, so, in order to get to it one’s eye has to caress the sensuous feminine curves over the length of the outstretched figure. Shortly after the success of this nude, Jules Joseph Lefèbvre was made an officer in the Legion of Honor.

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