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Alexandre Cabanel

1823 - 1889

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Alexandre Cabanel (French: [kabanɛl]; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Cabanel has received more than 690,363 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Alexandre Cabanel is the 143rd most popular painter (up from 163rd in 2019), the 456th most popular biography from France (up from 519th in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Painter.

Alexandre Cabanel is most famous for his painting "Birth of Venus," which depicts the goddess Venus emerging from the sea.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 143 out of 1,421Before him are Andrea del Sarto, Fernand Léger, Pontormo, Jean Fouquet, Théodore Rousseau, and André Derain. After him are Robert Campin, Jean Dubuffet, Hugo van der Goes, Fernando Botero, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Filippino Lippi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 6Before him are Abdulmejid I, Phineas Gage, Alfred Russel Wallace, Max Müller, and Ernest Renan. After him are Gyula Andrássy, Leopold Kronecker, Sándor Petőfi, Édouard Lalo, Jean-Henri Fabre, and Li Hongzhang. Among people deceased in 1889, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 6Before him are James Prescott Joule, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Antonio Meucci, Baroness Mary Vetsera, and Jefferson Davis. After him are Father Damien, Luís I of Portugal, Mihai Eminescu, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Charles III, Prince of Monaco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 456 out of 6,011Before him are Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), André Derain (1880), Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786), André Maurois (1885), Hippolyte Taine (1828), and William Wyler (1902). After him are Hector Malot (1830), Robert Campin (1375), Adolphe Adam (1803), Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), and Roger Vadim (1928).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 41Before him are Odilon Redon (1840), Robert Delaunay (1885), Fernand Léger (1881), Jean Fouquet (1420), Théodore Rousseau (1812), and André Derain (1880). After him are Robert Campin (1375), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Maurice Utrillo (1883), Frédéric Bazille (1841), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), and Eugène Boudin (1824).