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Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (7 November 1828 17 January 1886) was a
French painter.
Life
Baudry was born in 1828 in
La Roche-sur-Yon
La Roche-sur-Yon () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is the capital of the department. The demonym for its inhabitants is ''Yonnais''.
History
The town expanded significantly after Napo ...
in the
Vendée
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Michel Martin Drolling
Michel Martin Drolling (7 March 1786 – 9 January 1851) was a neoclassic French painter, painter of history and portraitist.
Biography
He was born in Paris. There, he began painting under the supervision of his father, the painter Martin Dr ...
and enrolled in the
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century ...
in 1845. He won the ''
Prix de Rome'' in 1850 for his picture of ''Zenobia found on the banks of the Araxes''.
His talent from the first revealed itself as strictly academical, full of elegance and grace, but somewhat lacking originality. In the course of his residence in Italy Baudry derived strong inspiration from Italian art with the mannerism of
Correggio, as was very evident in the two works he exhibited in the
Salon
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Common meanings
* Beauty salon, a venue for cosmetic treatments
* French term for a drawing room, an architectural space in a home
* Salon (gathering), a meeting for learning or enjoyment
Arts and entertainment
* Salon (P ...
of 1857, which were purchased for the
Luxembourg
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: ''The Martyrdom of a Vestal Virgin'' and ''The Child''.
His ''Leda'', ''St John the Baptist'', and a ''Portrait of Beul'', exhibited at the same time, took a first prize that year. Throughout this early period Baudry commonly selected mythological or fanciful subjects, one of the most noteworthy being ''The Pearl and the Wave'' (1862).
Once only did he attempt an historical picture, ''Charlotte Corday after the assassination of Marat'' (1861); and returned by preference to the former class of subjects or to painting portraits of illustrious men of his day:
Guizot,
Charles Garnier,
Edmond About.
The works that crowned Baudry's reputation were his mural decorations, which show much imagination and a high artistic gift for color, as may be seen in the
fresco
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es in the Paris
Court of Cassation, at the
château de Chantilly, and some private residences the Hôtel Fould and Hôtel Paiva but, above all, in the decorations of the foyer of the
Opera Garnier
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.
These, more than thirty paintings in all, and among them compositions figurative of dancing and music, occupied the painter for ten years. Baudry was a member of the
Académie des beaux-arts, succeeding
Jean-Victor Schnetz
Jean-Victor Schnetz (; April 14, 1787 in Versailles – March 15, 1870 in Paris) was a French academic painter well regarded for his historical and genre paintings.
Biography
Schnetz studied in Paris under Jacques-Louis David. His works ...
.
Baudry died in Paris in 1886. He is buried in
Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris with a huge and highly sculptural monument.
Honours
* 1878 : Member of the
Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium[Index biographique des membres et associés de l'Académie royale de Belgique (1769-2005). p 24]
Legacy
Two of his colleagues,
Paul Dubois
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People
Christianity
*Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...
and
Marius Jean Mercié, co-operating with his brother, Baudry the architect, erected his funeral monument in the
Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris (1890).
The statue of Baudry at
La Roche-sur-Yon
La Roche-sur-Yon () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is the capital of the department. The demonym for its inhabitants is ''Yonnais''.
History
The town expanded significantly after Napo ...
(1897) is by
Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Gallery
File:Baudry Euterpe detail Opera small.JPG, ''Euterpe
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'' (détail) at the Grand foyer of the Opera Palais.
File:Zenobie retrouvee par les bergers sur les bords.jpg, ''Zenobia
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Found by the Shepherds''
File:Paul Baudry - Venus and Cupid, 1849.jpg, ''Venus and Cupid'', 1849
File:La lutte de Jacob avec l'ange de Paul Baudry (1853) musée de La Roche-sur-Yon.jpg, ''Jacob
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. J ...
Wrestling
with the Angel'', 1853
File:Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry - Diana Reposing - Walters 3712.jpg, ''Diana Reposing'', , Walters Art Museum
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File:Paul Baudry - The Pearl and the Wave - c 1862 - Detroit Institute of Arts.jpg, ''The Pearl and the Wave'', 1862, Prado
File:Crouching Nude Male Figure.jpg, ''Crouching Nude Male Figure'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, 1864–74
File:Seated Male Nude (recto); Crouching Male Nude (verso) - Paul Baudry.jpg, ''Seated Male Nude (recto); Crouching Male Nude (verso)'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
, 1864–74
File:Study for the Muse Thalia - Paul Baudry.jpg, ''Study for the Muse Thalia'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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See also
*
List of works by Paul Dubois (sculptor)
*
List of works by Antonin Mercié
This is a list of some of the works of the French sculptor and painter Antonin Mercié.
Biography
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié was born in Toulouse and attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under François Jouffroy and Alex ...
References and sources
;References
;Sources
*
*H. Delaborde, ''Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Baudry'' (1886); Ch. Ephrussi, ''Baudry, sa vie et son oevre'' (1887). (H. FR.)
*Grunchec, P. (1985). ''The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the École des Beaux-Arts, 1797-1863''. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. .
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19th-century French painters
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