The grave of Paul Baudry, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

Paul Baudry - Charlotte Corday - c 1860 - Nantes Museum of Art

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (7 November 1828 17 January 1886) was a French painter.

Life

Baudry was born in 1828 in

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in the

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. He studied art under

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and enrolled in the

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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

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of 1857, which were purchased for the

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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

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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

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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 BelgiumIndex biographique des membres et associés de l'Académie royale de Belgique (1769-2005). p 24

Legacy

Two of his colleagues,

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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

(1897) is by Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Gallery

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'' (détail) at the Grand foyer of the Opera Palais. File:Zenobie retrouvee par les bergers sur les bords.jpg, ''

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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

, 1864–74 File:Study for the Muse Thalia - Paul Baudry.jpg, ''Study for the Muse Thalia'' at the

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. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Baudry, Paul-Jacques-Aime 1828 births 1886 deaths People from La Roche-sur-Yon Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century French painters French male painters Prix de Rome for painting Academic art Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium 19th-century French male artists

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