Alexandre Cabanel (1823 - 1889) was a French painter who achieved his great importance by not following the new styles of his time. With his history paintings, portraits and mythologies, he remained true to the style of academic painting and strove more towards the art of a Michelangelo or Raffael, while his contemporaries already turned to Realism and Impressionism. The son of a carpenter, he had begun studying painting at an early age and by 1864, at the age of only forty, he had become professor at the École des Beaux-Arts and jury member of the Paris Salon.
The artist created his most famous work "The Birth of Venus" in 1863, which earned the enthusiasm of the public and the Emperor Napoleon III, who bought the painting for a record sum. Later he made copies of it himself, most of them as commissioned works. The delicate colours and balanced proportions of Venus were not celebrated by everyone and also led to criticism. However, this did not harm Cabanel's fame and reputation, he remained a respected artist for many years and exerted a great influence as a professor. Among his students was Gustave Courbet, who was at least temporarily inspired by Cabanel.
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.jpg "Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Nymph Abducted by a Faun by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Cleopatra Testing Poison on Condemned Slaves by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Birth of Venus, 1875 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Countess De Keller by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Self-portrait by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Phèdre by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Study of Adam for Paradis Perdu, c.1863 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_as_Ophelia_by_Caban_-_(MeisterDrucke-1011179).jpg "Christina Nilsson as Ophelia by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Paradise Lost by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1517462).jpg "Phaedra, in 1880 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Echo by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_(1214-1270)_in_Jerusalem_Painting_by_-_(MeisterDrucke-984090).jpg "Seventh Crusade: King Louis IX (Saint Louis) (1214-1270) in Jerusalem. Painting by Alexandre Cabanel (19th century) by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Echo by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The White Queen of Castile gives a lecture to the future King Louis IX (Saint Louis) (1214-1270) child. Painting by Alexandre Cabanel (19th century) by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Phaedra by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Algae and Boniface by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_at_the_Ecole_des_Beaux_-_(MeisterDrucke-1427659).jpg "The workshop of the painter Alexandre Cabanel at the Ecole des Beaux Arts by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "La Chiaruccia by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Drapery study for An Angel Attending God the Father, in Paradise Lost by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_(1214-1270)_rendering_justice_Painting_by_Alexandre_-_(MeisterDrucke-1021789).jpg "King Louis IX rendering justice by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Portrait of Countess E.A. Vorontova-Dashkova, 1873 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Psyche with the Box of Proserpina by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Study for Paradis Perdu by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Roman Monk by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_(s_-_(MeisterDrucke-583877).jpg "Study for The Death of Moses by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Venetian Patrician by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "La Comtesse de Keller, 1873 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Samson and Delilah by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Sutton Sisters by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Studio by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, 1870 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Olivia Peyton Murray Cutting by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Algae and Boniface by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Mary Frick Garrett by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "St. Louis in Jerusalem, illustration from the illustrated supplement of Le Petit Journal, 11th September, 1898 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Birth of Venus, 1863 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Countess of Keller by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Death of Moses by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1663216).jpg "Pharaoh Cleopatra VII by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_Painting_by_Alexandre_Ca_-_(MeisterDrucke-951052).jpg "Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (1284) by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Albayde by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Woman Reaching Over a Wall, study for The Life of Saint Louis, King of France by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Catharine Lorillard Wolfe by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1491662).jpg "Rocky Landscape by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Phedre by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Samson and Delilah by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Napoleon III by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_rendering_justice_Painting_by_Alexand_-_(MeisterDrucke-1000521).jpg "King Louis IX Rendering Justice by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Rebecca and Eliezer by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Life of St. Louis by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "A Young Lady by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Painting in the left transept of the Pantheon, Paris, c1880-1882 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-632241).jpg "The Death of Moses (detail) by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "A Druidess, 1868 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Portrait of Prince K.A. Gorchakov, 1868 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Study for a Saracen, for The Captivity of St Louis by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1564154).jpg "Portrait of Arabella Worsham (later Arabella Huntington) by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Academic Nude by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Glorification of St. Louis by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Self Portrait by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Central Figure, study for The Life of Saint Louis, King of France by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Georgina Schuyler by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Ruth Returning from the Fields by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "The Druidess by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1662638).jpg "Algae and Boniface, c.1857 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Florentine Poet by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Study of Man")
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.jpg "A Self-Portrait, bust length, 1847 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Napoleon III by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Study for The Education of St Louis Pantheon by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "St. Louis pendant la Justice, c. 1875 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Portrait of Miss Fanny Clapp by Alexandre Cabanel")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-583876).jpg "The Death of Moses by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Catharine Lorillard Wolfe by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "St. Louis during Justice by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Portrait of Princess Elizabeth Vorontsova-Dashkova by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Study for \"The Florentine Poet\" by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Napoleon III by Alexandre Cabanel")
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.jpg "Study for The Triumph of Flora, c1880-1882 by Alexandre Cabanel")
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