Alexandre Cabanel

Biography

Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) was one of the most successful academic painters of the Second Empire, a favourite of Napoleon III and an influential teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Paintings in this gallery (1)

The Birth of Venus

Alexandre Cabanel · 1863

Famous works elsewhere

Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners 1887
Fallen angel 1847
Phaedra 1880
Nymph abducted by a faun 1860
Albaydé 1848
Death of Francesca da Rimini and of Paolo Malatesta 1870