Jules Joseph Lefebvre was an academic painter who began his career with history paintings, and later moved to specializing in portraits and female nudes, the latter often in the role of subjects from history or mythology.
His work was well received at the Paris Salon, and he became a respected teacher at the Académie Julian. Among his students were a number of notable American Impressionist painters, including Childe Hassam, Frank Weston Benson, Willard Metcalf, Guy Rose, Charles Edmund Tarbell and Charles Courtney Curran.
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Link: Jules Joseph Lefebvre on the Athenaeum
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This is his daughter, Yvonne Lefebvre, whom he painted occasionnally; at least three times.
http://pictify.com/237980/jules-joseph-lefebvre-yvonne
Elle est très mignonne/She is very cute.
A new one on the skin favorite list. Thanks Charley.
Image third from bottom is a mirror image of the pose in the ‘Rokeby Venus’ (as it is often called) first painted by Velazquez (c.1648).
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/diego-velazquez-the-toilet-of-venus-the-rokeby-venus
Yes. The reversal is interesting. Thanks, Daniel.
Difficult to realise that a century ago the Rokeby Venus was once slashed to pieces by a Canadian Suffragette, Mary Raleigh Richardson, arrested nine times in ten years, active in the women’s suffrage movement in the UK, an arsonist and later the head of the women’s section of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley. http://now-here-this.timeout.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Venus.jpg
http://www.heretical.com/suffrage/1914tms2.html
Frightening!
Typo: arrested nine times in two years,
http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/history/mary.htm