Alexandre Cabanel
(1823–1889) fransk konstnär
Alexandre Cabanel (France, 1823–1889) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Alexandre Cabanel belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.
Alexandre Cabanel was born in Montpellier and died in Paris. Alexandre Cabanel trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. The teachers included François-Édouard Picot and Charles Matet. Alexandre Cabanel worked in Paris. Wikidata associates Alexandre Cabanel with academic art and L'art pompier. Alexandre Cabanel became a member of Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Commander of the Legion of Honour, Prix de Rome, Order of Saint Michael, and Officer of the Order of Leopold. The students included François Lafon, Pierre Auguste Cot, Raphaël Collin, and Fernand Cormon.
The best-known works include ‘The Birth of Venus’, ‘Alfred Armand’, and ‘Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners’. The works belong mainly to the genres history painting, nude, and portrait. The catalogue has 71 works by Alexandre Cabanel with free images. The dated works span the years 1843–1900. Works by Alexandre Cabanel are held by several collections, among them Musée Fabre, Musée d’Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Walters Art Museum. Wikidata links 10 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jozef Van Lerius, Gustav Richter, James Bertrand, Maurice Sand, and Théodule Ribot.