Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (9 December 1808 – 1895, Paris) was a French painter.
Life
Entering 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 ...
en 1825, he studied in the studio of
Ingres alongside his friend
Joseph Guichard
Joseph Benoît Guichard (14 November 1806, Lyon - 31 May 1880, Lyon) was a French painter and art teacher who worked in a variety of styles.
Biography
His parents were the owners of a wallpaper shop. Around 1818, he began to study drawing at ...
, then in the studios of
Hersent and
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People
* Caroline Delacroix (1883–1945), French-Romanian mistress of Leopold II of Belgium
* Charles-François Delacroix (1741–1805), ...
.
Under the influence of German philosophy and painting, he considered art's aim had to be humanitarian and civilising.
He was buried in the new
Cimetière de Loyasse at
Lyon
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.
Works
*''Hell'' (1846), Montpellier,
Musée Fabre
The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault ''département''.
The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 m ...
*''The Continence of Scipio'' (1848) Lyon,
Musée des Beaux-Arts
*''Divina Tragedia'' (between 1865 and 1869) Paris,
Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...
Bibliography
* Joseph C. Sloane, ''Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard: Artist of 1848'', Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 214 p.
*
Théophile Silvestre, ''Histoire des artistes vivants français et étrangers'', Paris, 1856
* Théophile Gautier : description des peintures de Chenavard au Panthéon sur : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k109148c/f4.image.r=.langFR
Notes
1808 births
1895 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
19th-century French male artists
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