Paul Chenavard
French painter (1808–1895)
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Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (9 December 1808[1] – 1895) was a French painter.
Life
Entering the École des beaux-arts en 1825, he studied in the studio of Ingres alongside his friend Joseph Guichard, then in the studios of Hersent and Delacroix.
The influence of German philosophy and painting led him to believe that art's aim had to be humanitarian and civilising. He died in Paris in 1895 and was buried in the new Cimetière de Loyasse at Lyon.
Works
La Palingénésie sociale
or La Philosophie de l'histoire.
Oil painting. 303 x 380 cm.Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
or La Philosophie de l'histoire.
Oil painting. 303 x 380 cm.Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paul Chenavard.
- Hell (1846), Montpellier, Musée Fabre
- The Continence of Scipio (1848) Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts
- Divina Tragedia (between 1865 and 1869) Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Bibliography
- Joseph C. Sloane, Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard: Artist of 1848, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 214 p.
- Théophile Silvestre, Histoire des artistes vivants français et étrangers, Paris, 1856
- Théophile Gautier : description des peintures de Chenavard au Panthéon sur : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k109148c/f4.image.r=.langFR
