Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (; ) adalah seorang tokoh Perancis pelukis, pendidik dan ahli teori.

Awal kehidupan
Lefebvre lahir di Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, pada 14 Maret 1836. Ia memasuki École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts pada tahun 1852 dan merupakan murid dari Léon Cogniet.

Karier
Ia memenangkan Prix de Rome yang bergengsi pada tahun 1861. Antara tahun 1855 dan 1898, ia memamerkan 72 potret di Paris Salon. Banyak lukisannya adalah sosok tunggal wanita cantik. Di antara potret terbaiknya adalah potret ML Reynaud dan Prince Imperial (1874). Pada tahun 1891, ia menjadi anggota Akademi Seni Prancis.

Dia adalah profesor di Académie Julian di Paris. Lefebvre terutama penting sebagai guru yang sangat baik dan simpatik yang berjumlah banyak orang Amerika di antara 1500 muridnya atau lebih. Di antara murid-muridnya yang terkenal adalah Fernand Khnopff, Kenyon Cox,Oxford Art Online, "Lefebvre, Jules" Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart,Baron Ernst Friedrich von Liphart , Late 19th Century – 19th Century – Russian Artists – Biographies – RusArtNet.com Georges Rochegrosse,Waller, S. (ed.), Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise, Routledge, 2017, p. 119 pelukis lanskap kelahiran Skotlandia William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, dan Edmund C. Tarbell, yang menjadi pelukis Impresionis Amerika.Kathleen Luhrs, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980: "...ke Paris dan belajar selama satu tahun di Académie Julian di bawah Gustave Boulanger dan Jules Lefebvre." Murid lainnya adalah miniaturis Alice Beckington. Jules Benoit-Lévy memasuki bengkelnya di cole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts."Benoit-Lévy, Jules (1866–1925), Painter, draughtsman, illustrator" , Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Lefebvre meninggal di Paris pada 24 Februari 1911.

Karya
1861 The Death of Priam (won the Prix de Rome), École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1861 Diva Vittoria Colonna
1863 Boy Painting a Tragic Mask
1864 Roman Charity
1865 Portrait d'Antonio, modèle italien
1866 Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi
1868 Reclining Nude, Musée d'Orsay
1869 Le Réveil de Diane
1869 Portrait of Alexandre Dumas
1870 La Vérité (The Truth) (1870), oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The painting is contemporary with the first small scale model made by Lefebvre's fellow-Frenchman Frédéric Bartholdi for what became the Statue of Liberty, striking a similar pose, though fully clothed.
1870s Jeune femme à la mandoline (Girl with a Mandolin)
1870 Portrait du Prince Impérial
1872 Pandorathumb|upright|Graziella, 1878 (depicting the protagonist of Alphonse de Lamartine's novel Graziella)
1872 La Cigale, National Gallery of Victoria (Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1872, no. 970; collection of Milton Latham (1827–82), San Francisco, before 1878; by whom sold, New York, 1879; collection of Daniel Catlin, St Louis, Missouri, 1879–1893; by whom gifted to the St Louis Museum of Fine Arts, 1893–1945; deaccessioned and sold, c. 1945; collection of Julian Sterling, Melbourne, by 1984–2005; from whom purchased for the Felton Bequest, 2005.)
1874 Odalisque
1874 Slave Carrying Fruit (Ghent Museum)
1874 Portrait of Eugène Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
1875 Chloé, Young and Jackson Hotel, Melbourne
1876 Mary Magdalene in the Cave, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
1877 Pandora
1878 Mignon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1878 Graziella, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1879 Diana
1879 Diana Surprised, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
1880 Portrait of Julia Foster Ward, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
1880 Housemaid, Pera Museum, Istanbul
1881 La Fiametta from Giovanni Boccaccio
1881, Ondine, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
1882 Pandora (II)
1882 Japonaise (A Japanese woman)
1883 Psyché
1884 The Feathered Fan
1884 Portrait of Edna Barger, private collection
1890 Lady Godiva
1890 Ophelia
1892 A Daughter of Eve
1892 Judith
1896 Portrait of a Lady (II)
1898 Amor beim Schärfen seiner Pfeile (Love sharpening its arrows)
1901 Alexander Agassiz
1901 Yvonne (formerly Musée du Luxembourg), Portrait of Lefebvre's daughter

Karya lainnya
Clémence Isaure
La Fiancée
Woman with an Orange
Nymph with Morning Glory Flowers
Fleurs des Champs
L'Amour Blessé (Wounded Love)
Mediterranean Beauty
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of a Woman
Young Woman with Morning Glories in Her Hair

Referensi

Pranala luar

TheARTwerx – Lefebvre Gallery: Comprehensive archive of 141 images
Jules-Joseph-Lefebvre.org: 42 images by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Art Renewal Centre – Lefebvre Gallery
Jules Joseph Lefebvre , paintingiant.com

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