Portait de Alexandre Cabanel
Medium
Lithograph on chine collé
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 9/16 × 10 1/8 in. (37 × 25.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015
Accession Number
2015.653.40
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Alexandre Cabanel|Pierre Petit|Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse|Lemercier & Cie. · 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 ...