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, Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, Georges Rochegrosse, pelukis lanskap kelahiran Skotlandia William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, dan Edmund C. Tarbell, yang menjadi pelukis Impresionis Amerika. Murid lainnya adalah miniaturis Alice Beckington. Jules Benoit-Lévy memasuki bengkelnya di cole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

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 ''Pandora''
*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, *[https://en.mng.hu/artworks/ondine/ 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


File:Clemence Isaure.jpg|*Clémence Isaure*
File:1879_Jules_Joseph_Lefebvre_-_Diana_surprised.jpg|*Diana Surprised*, 1879
File:Lady_godiva_full.jpg|*[[Lady Godiva]]*, 1891
File:La_Vérité,_par_Jules_Joseph_Lefebvre.jpg|*La Vérité*, 1870
File:Jules Lefèvre Vittoria Colonna.jpg|*Vittoria Colonna*, 1861


## 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