Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry

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Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
File:Paul Baudry 1862.jpg
Portrait published in L'Artiste, 1862
Born (1828-11-07)7 November 1828
La Roche-sur-Yon, France
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Paris, France
Nationality French
Occupation Artist
Awards Prix de Rome
File:Paul Baudry - Charlotte Corday - c 1860 - Nantes Museum of Art.jpg
Charlotte Corday after the Assassination of Marat, 1861, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (7 November 1828 – 17 January 1886) was a French painter.

Life

Baudry was born in 1828 in La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendée. He studied art under Michel Martin Drolling and enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in 1845.[1] He won the Prix de Rome in 1850 for his picture of Zenobia found on the banks of the Araxes.[2]

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.[2]

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.[2][3]

The works that crowned Baudry's reputation were his mural decorations, which show much imagination and a high artistic gift for color, as may be seen in the frescoes in the Paris Court of Cassation, at the château de Chantilly, and some private residences the Hôtel Fould and Hôtel Paiva but, above all, in the decorations of the foyer of the Opera Garnier.

These, more than thirty paintings in all, and among them compositions figurative of dancing and music, occupied the painter for ten years. Baudry was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts, succeeding Jean-Victor Schnetz.

Baudry died in Paris in 1886.[2]

Honours

Legacy

Two of his colleagues, Paul Dubois and Marius Jean Mercié, co-operating with his brother, Baudry the architect, erected his funeral monument in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris (1890).[2]

The statue of Baudry at La Roche-sur-Yon (1897) is by Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Gallery

  • Euterpe (détail) at the Grand foyer of the Opera Palais.

  • Zenobie retrouvee par les bergers sur les bords.jpg

    Zenobia Found by the Shepherds c. 1848

  • Paul Baudry - Venus and Cupid, 1849.jpg

    Venus and Cupid, 1849

  • La lutte de Jacob avec l'ange de Paul Baudry (1853) musée de La Roche-sur-Yon.jpg

    Jacob Wrestling
    with the Angel    , 1853

  • Diana Reposing, c. 1859, Walters Art Museum

  • Paul Baudry - The Pearl and the Wave - c 1862 - Detroit Institute of Arts.jpg

    The Pearl and the Wave, 1862, Prado

  • Crouching Nude Male Figure.jpg

    Crouching Nude Male Figure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1864–74

  • Seated Male Nude (recto); Crouching Male Nude (verso) - Paul Baudry.jpg

    Seated Male Nude (recto); Crouching Male Nude (verso) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1864–74

  • Study for the Muse Thalia - Paul Baudry.jpg

    Study for the Muse Thalia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

See also

References and sources

References

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Sources
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  • 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 École des Beaux-Arts, 1797-1863. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. ISBN 0883970759.

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  1. ↑ Grunchec 1985, p. 147.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Chisholm 1911.
  3. ↑ Larousse, Pierre (1869). Grand Dictionnaire Universel [du XIXe Siecle Francais: A-Z 1805-76]. France: Administration du Grand dictionnaire universel. p. 117.
  4. ↑ Index biographique des membres et associés de l'Académie royale de Belgique (1769-2005). p 24
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