Jules Joseph Lefebvre: A collection of 57 paintings ( HD)

Jules Joseph Lefebvre: A collection of 57 paintings (HD) Description: ules Joseph Lefebvre (French: ʒyl ʒɔzɛf ləfɛːvʁ) (14 March 1836 24 February 1911) was a French figure painter, educator and theorist. Lefebvre was born in TournanenBrie, SeineetMarne, on 14 March 1836. He entered the École nationale supérieure des BeauxArts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861. Between 1855 and 1898, he exhibited 72 portraits in the Paris Salon. In 1891, he became a member of the French Académie des BeauxArts. He was professor at the Académie Julian in Paris Lefebvre is chiefly important as an excellent and sympathetic teacher who numbered many Americans among his 1500 or more pupils. Among his famous students were Fernand Khnopff, Kenyon Cox, Félix Vallotton, Ernst Friedrich von Liphart, Georges Rochegrosse, the Scottishborn landscape painter William Hart, Walte