Jules joseph lefebvre biography

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (Tournan-en-Brie, 14 March 1836 – Paris, 24 February 1911) was a French figure painter.

Lefebvre went to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852.

Jules joseph lefebvre biography

He was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon. In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.

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He was a teacher at the Académie Julian in Paris. One of his famous students was the Scottish born landscape painter William Hart. Georges Rochegrosse, Félix Vallotton, the Americans Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, John Noble Barlow, Augustus Kenderdine, and Charles A.

Platt were also his pupils. He was a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts for a long time.

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His paintings are usually single figures of beautiful women.

Among his best portraits were those of M. L. Reynaud and the Prince Imperial (1874). Among his many decorations were a first-cla