Jules Lefebvre

Jules Lefebvre studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. Training under Léon Cogniet and Jean Francis Auburtin is recorded. Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Georges Rochegrosse and Amélie Beaury-Saurel are recorded as having studied under Jules Lefebvre. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait, history and nude. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris. Works named in the authority record are Chloé, Truth and Nymph and Bacchus. Work by Jules Lefebvre is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Beaux-Arts de Paris and Musée de Picardie. Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Legion of Honour, Prix de Rome, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Officier de l'Instruction publique.

• Name — Jules Joseph Lefebvre • Born — 14 March 1836 • Birthplace — Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France • Died — 24 February 1911 • Place of death — Paris, France • Other Names — Jules Lefebvre • Occupation — Painter

Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1836. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet.

• Illustration — Lefebvre in his studio He won the prestigious Prix de Rome with his The Death of Priam in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon. Many of his paintings are single figures of beautiful women. Among the portraits of his considered the best were those of M. L. Reynaud and the Prince Imperial (1874). In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts. He was professor at the Académie Julian in Paris. Lefebvre is chiefly important as an excellent and sympathetic teacher who numbered many Americans among his 1500 or more pupils. Among his famous students were Fernand Khnopff, Kenyon Cox, Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, Georges Rochegrosse, the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, Walter Lofthouse Dean, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an US Impressionist painter. Another pupil was the miniaturist Alice Beckington, as was Laura Leroux-Revault, the daughter of his friend Louis Hector Leroux. Jules Benoit-Lévy entered his workshop at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. • Illustration — Grave of Lefebvre, Montmartre Cemetery Lefebvre died in Paris on 24 February 1911 and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery with a bas-relief depiction of his painting The Truth on his grave.

• 1853 Student at the École des Beaux-Arts • 1859 Second place Prix de Rome • 1861 His The Death of Priam wins the Prix de Rome • 1870 Académie Julian professor • 1870 Officer in the Legion of Honour (called 'Commander' from 1898) • 1891 Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts

• Illustration — Graziella, 1878 (depicting the protagonist of Alphonse de Lamartine's 1852 novel Graziella) • Illustration — alt=Oil painting of a woman from the torso up, facing left. She wears a golden laurel wreath in her long, flowing hair, and holds a scroll and sprig of yellow flowers in her left hand. Clémence Isaure • Illustration — The Sorrow of Mary Magdalene • Illustration — alt=Oil painting of a woman with long hair and a puffy white dress looking pensively at the viewers. She wears a golden laurel wreath and a gold pendant with a long chain around her neck. Vittoria Colonna, 1861 • Illustration — alt=Oil painting of a naked woman standing, facing the viewers. Her right hand extends above her head, holding a golden mirror, her left hand seems to be holding a stick or staff, and her right leg is bent, shifting weight onto her left hip. The Truth, 1870 • Illustration — The Grasshopper, 1872 • Illustration — Diana Surprised, 1879 • Illustration — Psyché, 1883 • Illustration — Sappho, 1884 • Illustration — Odalisque, 1874 • Illustration — alt=Oil painting of a naked woman on a horse being lead by a woman in servant's clothing along a street lined with tall, Tudor style buildings. The street is otherwise deserted, except for three doves which fly near the women. Lady Godiva, 1890 • Illustration — Sleeping vestal virgin, 1902

• Clémence Isaure • Fleurs des Champs • Wounded Love • La Fiancée • Mediterranean Beauty • Nymph with Morning Glory Flowers • Portrait of a Lady • Portrait of a Woman • The Sorrow of Mary Magdalene • Woman with an Orange • Young Woman with Morning Glories in Her Hair