Alexandre Cabanel Born: 28 September 1823, Montpellier, France Died: 23 January 1889 (aged 65) Nationality: French Field: Painting Training: François-Édouard Picot Movement: Academicism Works: Birth of Venus Awards: Prix de Rome Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen. Cabanel studied with François-Édouard Picot and exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1844, and won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1845 at the age of twenty two. Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863 and appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in the sam...
