French painter (1828-1886)
Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Paul_Baudry_1862.jpg/220px-Paul_Baudry_1862.jpg) Portrait published in
L'Artiste
, 1862
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Born
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1828-11-07
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7 November 1828
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Died
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(1886-01-17)
(aged 57)
Paris, France
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Occupation
| Artist
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Awards
| Prix de Rome
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The grave of Paul Baudry, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Charlotte Corday after the Assassination of
Marat
, 1861,
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry
(7 November 1828 ? 17 January 1886) was a French painter.
Life
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Baudry was born in 1828 in
La Roche-sur-Yon
in the
Vendee
. He studied art under
Michel Martin Drolling
and enrolled in the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts
in 1845.
[1]
He won the
Prix de Rome
in 1850
[2]
for his picture of
Zenobia found on the banks of the Araxes
.
His talent from the first revealed itself as strictly academical, full of elegance and grace, but somewhat lacking originality. In the course of his residence in Italy Baudry derived strong inspiration from Italian art with the mannerism of
Correggio
, as was very evident in the two works he exhibited in the
Salon
of 1857, which were purchased for the
Luxembourg
:
The Martyrdom of a Vestal Virgin
and
The Child
.
His
Leda
,
St John the Baptist
, and a
Portrait of Beul
, exhibited at the same time, took a first prize that year. Throughout this early period Baudry commonly selected mythological or fanciful subjects, one of the most noteworthy being
The Pearl and the Wave
(1862).
Once only did he attempt an historical picture,
Charlotte Corday after the assassination of Marat
(1861); and returned by preference to the former class of subjects or to painting portraits of illustrious men of his day:
Guizot
,
Charles Garnier
,
Edmond About
.
[4]
Baudry's chief legacies were his mural decorations, which show imagination and a artistic gift for color, as may be seen in the
frescoes
in the Paris
Court of Cassation
, at the
chateau de Chantilly
, and some private residences the Hotel Fould and Hotel Paiva.
The decorations of the foyer of the
Opera Garnier
are regarded as his finest achievement.
[2]
These, more than thirty paintings in all, and among them compositions figurative of dancing and music, occupied the painter for ten years.
[2]
Baudry was a member of the
Academie des beaux-arts
, succeeding
Jean-Victor Schnetz
.
In the United States, Baudry painted two ceilings in the
William K. Vanderbilt House
in New York.
[2]
[5]
Baudry died in Paris in 1886.
He is buried in
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
in Paris with a huge and highly sculptural monument.
Honours
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Legacy
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Two of his colleagues,
Paul Dubois
and
Marius Jean Mercie
, co-operating with his brother, Baudry the architect, erected his funeral monument in the
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
in Paris (1890).
The statue of Baudry at
La Roche-sur-Yon
(1897) is by
Jean-Leon Gerome
.
Gallery
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See also
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References and sources
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- References
- Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Chisholm, Hugh
, ed. (1911). "
Baudry, Paul Jacques Aime
".
Encyclopædia Britannica
(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- H. Delaborde,
Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Baudry
(1886); Ch. Ephrussi,
Baudry, sa vie et son oevre
(1887). (H. FR.)
- Grunchec, P. (1985).
The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1797-1863
. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation.
ISBN
0883970759
.
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