Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (9 December 1808 – 1895) was a French painter.

Life

Entering the

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en 1825, he studied in the studio of

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alongside his friend

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, 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

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Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

Works

*''Hell'' (1846), Montpellier,

Musée Fabre The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault ''département''. The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 m ...

*''The Continence of Scipio'' (1848) Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Divina Tragedia'' (between 1865 and 1869) Paris,

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ...

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

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1808 births 1895 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters École des Beaux-Arts alumni 19th-century French male artists Painters from Lyon {{France-painter-19thC-stub