Joseph-Noël Sylvestre (24 June 1847 – 29 October 1926) was a French artist, notable for his studies of classic scenes from antiquity.
. (Exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers, October 2005).

Life

Joseph-Noël Sylvestre was born on 24 June 1847 in

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in South-West France. He began his training as an artist first in

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under

Thomas Couture Thomas Couture (; 21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught many notable contemporary figures of the art world, such as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chava ...

, then at the

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in Paris under

Alexandre Cabanel Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French Painting, painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the Academic art, academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon ...

. He was an exponent of the romantic

Academic art Academic art, academicism, or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. This method extended its influence throughout the Western world over several centuries, from its origins i ...

style, also known as ''art pompier'' (fireman's art), examples of which are the ''Death of Seneca'' (1875), ''The Gaul Ducar decapitates the Roman general Flaminius at the Battle of Trasimene'' (1882), ''The Sack of Rome by the barbarians in 410'' (1890) and ''François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe'' (1893).

Gallery

File:Sylvestre La Mort de Seneque 1875.jpg, ''The Death of Seneca'' (1875) File:Sylvestre Ducar decapite Flaminius (Trasimene).jpg, ''The Gaul Ducar decapitates the Roman general Gaius Flaminius at the

Battle of Lake Trasimene The Battle of Lake Trasimene was fought when a Carthaginian force under Hannibal ambushed a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius on 21 June 217 BC, during the Second Punic War. The battle took place on the north shore of Lake Tra ...

'' (1882) File:Visigoths sack Rome.jpg, ''The Sack of Rome in 410 by the Barbarians'' (1890). File:Sylvestre Rude sur Arc de Triomphe 1893.jpg, ''

François Rude François Rude (; 4 January 1784 – 3 November 1855) was a French sculptor, best known for the ''Departure of the Volunteers'', also known as ''La Marseillaise'' on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (1835–36). His work often expressed patriotic t ...

working on the

Arc de Triomphe The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Plac ...

'' (1893).

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* This article began as a translation of its French equivalent. 1847 births 1926 deaths People from Béziers French romantic painters French neoclassical painters Academic art 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub