Robert Lefèvre
Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ ʒak fʁɑ̃swa fɔst ləfɛvʁ], 24 September 1755, in Bayeux – 3 October 1830, in Paris) was a French painter of portraits, history paintings and religious paintings. He was heavily influenced by Jacques-Louis David and his style is reminiscent of the antique.
Life
Robert Lefèvre made his first drawings on the papers of a procureur to whom his father had apprenticed him. With his parents' consent, he abandoned this apprenticeship and walked from Caen to Paris to become a student of
His other portraits of
On the
While he was working on this last painting, the Revolution of July 1830 took place, an event which was to deprive him of his support and official posts. Ill, depressed and desperate, he committed suicide by cutting his throat at his house on the night of 2/3 October 1830; he was 75 years old. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris.[3]
Gallery
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Cupid sharpening his arrows (1798) -
Princess Pauline Borghese (1806) -
Portrait of the Duchess of Berry (1826) -
Maria Baryatinskaya (1819) -
M.F. Baryatinskaya with daughter Olga (1817) -
Portrait of Napoleon in Coronation Robes (1811)
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References
- Gaston Lavalley, Le Peintre Robert Lefèvre, sa vie et son œuvre, Caen, L. Jouan, [s.d.], (c 1920).
- Mémoires de la Société des sciences, arts et Belles-Lettres de Bayeux, 1901, p. 121-2
Notes
- ^ "Sale of the century as aristocrats auction heirlooms". Daily Telegraph.
- ^ According to the Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay, volume V, appendices and index, established by Isabelle Compin & Anne Roquebert, Liste des tableaux déposés par le Louvre by Élisabetth-Foucart-Walter, Paris, 1986, page 291, n° d'inventaire INV 4418, this work was in 1872 placed in the musée de Varzy
- ^ "Fondation Napoléon". Napoleon.org. Retrieved 2013-07-07.
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