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Alexandre Cabanel
(1823-89)
Cabanel, Alexandre
(1823-89). French painter.
The winner of the Prix de Rome in 1845, he ranked with
Bouguereau
as one of the most successful and influential academic painters of the
period and one of the sternest opponents of the
Impressionists.
The Birth of Venus
(Musee d'Orsay, Paris) is his best-known work and typical of the slick and
titillating (but supposedly chaste) nudes at which he excelled.
It was the hit of the official Salon of 1863, the year of the
Salon des Refuses, and was bought by the emperor Napoleon III, who gave
Cabanel several prestigious commissions.
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