Jules Lefebvre
(1836–1911) fransk målare
Jules Lefebvre (France, 1836–1911) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jules Lefebvre belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.
Jules Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie and died in rue La Bruyère. Jules Lefebvre trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. The teachers included Léon Cogniet and Jean Francis Auburtin. Jules Lefebvre worked in Paris. Wikidata associates Jules Lefebvre with academic art. Jules Lefebvre became a member of Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Commander of the Legion of Honour, Prix de Rome, Officer of the Legion of Honour, and Officier de l'Instruction publique. The students included Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Georges Rochegrosse, Amélie Beaury-Saurel, and Paul Émile Chabas.
The best-known works include ‘Chloé’, ‘Truth’, and ‘Nymph and Bacchus’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait, history painting, and nude. The catalogue has 46 works by Jules Lefebvre with free images. The dated works span the years 1861–1912. Works by Jules Lefebvre are held by several collections, among them Musée de Picardie, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Musée d’Orsay, and National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina. Wikidata links 17 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Adriano Cecioni, Eugène Delaplanche, Alexander Helwig Wyant, Władysław Malecki, and James Tissot.