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Nymph With Morning Glory Flowers





Pandora
Pandora II
Truth
Chloé 1875

















 Jules Joseph Lefebvre (Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, 14 March 1836 – Paris, 24 February 1911) was a French figure painter.
Lefebvre entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon. In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.
He was an instructor at the Académie Julian in Paris. He is chiefly important as an excellent and sympathetic teacher who numbered many Americans among his 1500 or more pupils. Some of his famous students were the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, as well as Georges Rochegrosse, Félix Vallotton, and many more. He was long a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. via Wikioedia
Find more of his work at Wikipedia Commons

2 comments:

alteredslates said...

I'm liking the look of SisCelia today, the paintings Lefebvre make a wonderful additon here :)

Lucy said...

Congratulations for your wonderful blog!

Beautiful pictures!

Kind Regards, Lucy