Background
Alexandre Cabanel was born on September 28, 1823, in Montpellier, l'Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
Paris, France
Alexandre Cabanek entered at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1840. In 1864, he was appointed professor there and taught until his death.
Alexandre Cabanel was born on September 28, 1823, in Montpellier, l'Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
Cabanel's early schooling began in Montpelier itself where he discovered his talent for drawing. At the age of ten, he was admitted to a local art school. At the age of 17, with the help of grants given by the municipal authorities, he enrolled himself to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Later in 1839, he was enrolled in the studio of François-Edouard Picot (1786 - 1868).
Alexandre's first exhibition was at the Paris Salon in 1844, Cabanel won the Prix de Rome scholarship the following year, at the young age of only twenty-two. Alexandre Cabanel was elected into the Institute in 1863. He was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1864 and taught there until his death.
Works such as Angel of the Evening (Musée Fabre, Montpellier) show the influence which his stay in Italy at the Ecole de Rome had on him. His chief patron at this time was Alfred Bruyas. On his return to Paris he received many distinguished decorative commissions including The Triumph of Flora for the Cabinet des Dessins in the Louvre.
He was an influential teacher who could count among his pupils Jules Bastien-Lepage, Edouard Debat-Ponsan, Edouard Théophile Blanchard, Henri Gervex and Lodewijk Royer. He was a regular figure on the Salon jury.
Alfred Bruyas
1846Self-Portrait
1847A thinker, a young Roman monk
1848Albaydé
1848The Chiarrucia
1848The Death of Moses
1851Self-Portrait
1852Birth of Venus
1863Napoleon III
1865Fallen Angel
1868Portrait of Prince K.A. Gorchakov
1868Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta
1870La Comtesse de Keller
1873Portrait of Countess E.A. Vorontova-Dashkova
1873Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
1876Harmony
1877Portrait of John William Mackay
1878Samson and Delilah
1878The Daughter of Jephthah
1879Phedre
1880Patricipance of Venice
1881Love Messenger
1883Love Messenger
1883Écho
1887Cincinnatus Receiving Deputies of the Senate
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Those Condemned to Death
1887Cleopatra, preparatory study for 'Cleopatra Testing Poisons on the Condemned Prisoners'
Eve After the Fall
Nymph and Satyr
Paige
Portrait of Young Lady
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Paradise
Circe