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Paul César Helleu

1859 - 1927

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Paul César Helleu (17 December 1859 – 23 March 1927) was a French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer, best known for his numerous portraits of beautiful society women of the Belle Époque. He also conceived the ceiling mural of night sky constellations for Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul César Helleu has received more than 130,219 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Paul César Helleu is the 1,493rd most popular painter (down from 1,252nd in 2019), the 3,866th most popular biography from France (down from 3,378th in 2019) and the 240th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paul César Helleu ranks 1,493 out of 2,023. Before him are Luc-Olivier Merson, Vadym Meller, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Suzanne Manet, Thomas Girtin, and Alla Horska. After him are Yehuda Pen, Effie Gray, Alice Pike Barney, Peter Michal Bohúň, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, and Tomás Maldonado.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Paul César Helleu ranks 93. Before him are Childe Hassam, Karl Muck, Tsubouchi Shōyō, Josephine Crowell, Maurice Paléologue, and Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas. After him are Teodor Axentowicz, Julius Klengel, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Anna Palm de Rosa, Park Eun-sik, and Vittorio Sella. Among people deceased in 1927, Paul César Helleu ranks 91. Before him are Charles Warren, Sascha Schneider, János Csernoch, David Arellano, Miguel Pro, and Shushanik Kurghinian. After him are Ernest Starling, Matilde Serao, William Burnside, Carl Graebe, Émile Coste, and Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul César Helleu ranks 3,866 out of 6,770. Before him are Alain Cavalier (1931), Conan II, Duke of Brittany (1030), Gaston Alibert (1878), Louis Bastien (1881), Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen (1588), and Bruno Rodzik (1935). After him are Elias I, Count of Maine (1100), Claude Miller (1942), Édouard Colonne (1838), Paul Cambon (1843), Alain Besançon (1932), and Léon-Paul Fargue (1876).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Paul César Helleu ranks 240. Before him are Constance Mayer (1775), André Gill (1840), Antonin Mercié (1845), Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852), Louis Hersent (1777), and Luc-Olivier Merson (1846). After him are Charles Laval (1862), Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867), Jean Broc (1771), Joseph Ducreux (1735), Alphonse Legros (1837), and Henri Harpignies (1819).

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