Central Figure, study for The Life of Saint Louis, King of France
Alexandre Cabanel
c. 1878
Medium
Charcoal, with stumping, on tan wove paper
Dimensions
48.8 × 32.7 cm (19 1/4 × 12 7/8 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84543
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Alexandre Cabanel · 1823–1889
Alexandre Cabanel was a leading French academic painter born on September 28, 1823, in Montpellier. The son of a carpenter, he displayed artistic talent early and began formal training at age eleven at the local École des Beaux-Arts under Charles François Matet. In 1839 he received a municipal scholarship that enabled him to move to Paris, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1840 and ...