Jules Eugène Lenepveu

Jules Eugène Lenepveu Boussaroque de Lafont, known as Jules Eugène Lenepveu, (1819, Angers - 16 October 1898, Paris) was a French painter. He studied at the école des Beaux-Arts where he was a pupil of Mercier at Angers then of Picot in Paris. He entered the École nationale he won the Prix de Rome and went to Rome to complete his education. He became famous for his vast historical canvases, notably the ceilings of the Opéra de Paris (1869-1871 - imitated by a Marc Chagall work), and of the theatre at Angers (1871). He was director of the French Academy in Rome from 1873 to 1878.

In 1900, 2 years after his death, a monument to him was put up in the courtyard of the musée des Beaux-Arts, and a pedestrianised street in Angers was later named after him.

Works

* " [http://80.65.232.176/Photos/00/00/05/44/ME0000054408_3.jpgThe martyrs in the catacombs] ", 1855, Musée d'Orsay, oil on canvas,
* " [http://80.65.232.176/Photos/00/00/05/40/ME0000054023_3.jpgThe Muses] ", 1872, Musée d'Orsay, ceiling painting,
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