Jean-Paul Laurens
(1838–1921) French painter (1838-1921)
Jean-Paul Laurens (France, 1838–1921) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a sculptor. By year of birth, Jean-Paul Laurens belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.
Jean-Paul Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and died in 14th arrondissement of Paris. Jean-Paul Laurens trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The teachers included Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida. Jean-Paul Laurens worked in France. Wikidata associates Jean-Paul Laurens with academic art. Jean-Paul Laurens became a member of Royal Academy of Arts and Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Jean Reynaud Prize and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. The students included Edmund Dulac, Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, Amélie Beaury-Saurel, and Henry Moret.
The best-known works include ‘The Excommunication of Robert the Pious’, ‘The Suicide of Cato the Younger’, ‘Saint John Chrysostom and the Empress Eudoxia’, and ‘The Death of Tiberius’. The works belong mainly to the genre history painting. The catalogue has 22 works by Jean-Paul Laurens with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1900. Works by Jean-Paul Laurens are held by several collections, among them Musée des Augustins, Musée d’Orsay, Musée Paul-Dupuy, and Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon. Wikidata links 5 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Émile Bayard, Tony Robert-Fleury, Léon Germain Pelouse, Heinrich Lang, and Jules Dalou.