Artist
Alexandre Cabanel
French, 1823–1889
Alexandre Cabanel was a French Realism painter. 13 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them oil paintings. Alexandre Cabanel was born in Montpellier.
Alexandre Cabanel (French:; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) 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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