Jules-Joseph LEFEBVRE

French Painters: Jules-Joseph LEFEBVRE

 

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

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Lefebvre entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and 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.

He was an instructor 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, Georges Rochegrosse, the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an American Impressionist painter. He was long a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Many of his paintings are single figures of beautiful women. Among his best portraits were those of M. L. Reynaud and the Prince Imperial (1874).

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Biographie en Français

 

- c.1855 -

Portrait de Monsieur Fitzgerald

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- 1861 -

Diva Vittoria Colonna

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La Jeune Rieuse

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The Death of Priam

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- 1862-1866 -

Cavalier Samnite

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- 1865 -

Jeune Peintre des Masques Grec

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Portrait d'Antonio, Modèle Italien

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-c1870 -

Mignon

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- 1870 -

Truth

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- 1872 -

Pandora

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La Cigale

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- 1873 -

Portrait of a Woman

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- 1874 -

Odalisque

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- 1875 -

Chloé

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- 1877 -

Yvonne

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- 1878 -

Graziella

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Jeune Femme aux Tournesols

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- 1879 -

Diana Surprised

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Diana

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Mignon

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- 1880 -

Portrait of Julia Foster Ward

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Maid Servant (Serving tea)

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- 1882 -

Pandora

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A Japonese

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A Bride of Sorrento

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- 1884 -

Portrait of Edna Barger of Connecticut

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The Feathered Fan

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- 1886 -

A Pensive Moment

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Portrait of Madame T

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- 1887 -

Portrait of Gustave Chaix d'Est-Ange

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- 1888 -

La Poésie Antique

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Vénitienne

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- 1889 -

Girl Reading

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- c.1890 -

Lady Godiva

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- 1892 -

Une Fille d'Eve

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- 1895 -

Portrait of James A. Campbell

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- c.1900-1910 -

Susanne 

Unfinished

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- 1901 -

Yvonne

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- 1904 -

Mademoiselle A. L.

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- 1908 -

L'Abandonnée

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- Undated -

Portrait of a Young Lady

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The Fiancée

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Mediterranean Beauty

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Jeune Orientale au Foulard Brodé

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An Italian Beauty Bearing Fruits

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Nymph with Morning Glory Flowers

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Fleurs des Champs

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Girl with a Mandolin

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Young Woman with Morning Glories in Her Hair

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Ophelia

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Clémence Isaure

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Portrait of a Lady

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Portrait of a Woman

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L'Amour Blessé

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A Bathing Nude

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Mary Magdalen in the Grotto

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Mignon

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Portrait of Napoléon Bonaparte

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Portrait of Maude Barger Wallace

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Portrait of an Ottoman

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Allegory of Spring

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Springtime

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Morning Glory

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Nymph and Bacchus

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Djémilé

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La Vestale Endormie

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Nymphe Chasseresse

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Laure

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Eve

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Lady Godiva Praying

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Jeanne la Rousse

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Woman in Profile

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Girl Praying

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The Dream