Alexandre Cabanel

French · 1823–1889

academic artL'art pompier

He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style.

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life: 1823–1889life
movement: academic artmovement

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Who Alexandre Cabanel was

Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire."

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