Paul Chenavard

Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (9 December 1808[1] – 1895, Paris) was a French painter.

Paul Chenavard
Etching by Félix Bracquemond.

Life

Entering the École des beaux-arts en 1825, he studied in the studio of Ingres alongside his friend Joseph Guichard, then in the studios of Hersent and Delacroix.

Under the influence of German philosophy and painting, he considered art's aim had to be humanitarian and civilising. He was buried in the new Cimetière de Loyasse at Lyon.

Works

La Palingénésie sociale
or La Philosophie de l'histoire.
Oil painting. 303 x 380 cm.Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Hell (1846), Montpellier, Musée Fabre
The Continence of Scipio (1848) Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Divina Tragedia (between 1865 and 1869) Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Bibliography

Joseph C. Sloane, Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard: Artist of 1848, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 214 p.
Théophile Silvestre, Histoire des artistes vivants français et étrangers, Paris, 1856
Théophile Gautier : description des peintures de Chenavard au Panthéon sur : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k109148c/f4.image.r=.langFR

Notes

After Joseph C. Sloane, "Paul Chenavard", The Art Bulletin, vol 33, n° 4, December 1951, p. 240-258, which notes p. 241, which notes that some sources have him born in 1807.

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[1] After Joseph C. Sloane, "Paul Chenavard", The Art Bulletin, vol 33, n° 4, December 1951, p. 240-258, which notes p. 241, which notes that some sources have him born in 1807.