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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 118,937 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul César Helleu is the 1,253rd most popular painter, the 3,392nd most popular biography from France and the 207th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paul César Helleu ranks 1,253 out of 1,421Before him are Simon Bening, Franz Defregger, George Catlin, Agnes Martin, Antonio Berni, and Edward Robert Hughes. After him are Apollinary Vasnetsov, Gerard de Lairesse, Joseph Duplessis, Wojciech Gerson, Karin Bergöö Larsson, and Pavel Filonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Paul César Helleu ranks 84Before him are Maurice Paléologue, Constantine VI of Constantinople, Louis Majorelle, Nikolay Gamaleya, Victor Loret, and Childe Hassam. After him are Karin Bergöö Larsson, August Enna, Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Fanny Bullock Workman, Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas, and August von Gödrich. Among people deceased in 1927, Paul César Helleu ranks 80Before him are Victoria Woodhull, Laurits Tuxen, Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Erik Ivar Fredholm, József Rippl-Rónai, and Charles Doolittle Walcott. After him are Hermann Obrist, Miguel Pro, János Csernoch, Charles Warren, Kristian Prestrud, and Shushanik Kurghinian.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul César Helleu ranks 3,392 out of 6,011Before him are Joseph François Dupleix (1697), Pierre Fresnay (1897), Claude Miller (1942), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), Henri Decoin (1890), and Julien Guiomar (1928). After him are Albert Taillandier (1879), Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928), Bernard Thévenet (1948), Casimir Pierre Périer (1777), Joseph Duplessis (1725), and Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Paul César Helleu ranks 207Before him are Edward Poynter (1836), Wojciech Kossak (1856), Louise Moillon (1610), Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842), Lucien Simon (1861), and Félix Bracquemond (1833). After him are Joseph Duplessis (1725), Achille Devéria (1800), Tony Robert-Fleury (1837), Charb (1967), Georg von Rosen (1843), and Ernest Hébert (1817).