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Alexandre Cabanel

1823 - 1889

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Alexandre Cabanel (French: [kabanɛl]; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Cabanel is the 249th most popular painter (down from 207th in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from France (down from 684th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Painter.

Alexandre Cabanel is most famous for his painting "Birth of Venus," which depicts the goddess Venus emerging from the sea.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 249 out of 2,023. Before him are August Macke, Jacopo Bassano, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Andrea Pozzo, Ivan Kramskoi, and Lorenzo Lotto. After him are Baldassare Peruzzi, Kees van Dongen, Edwin Landseer, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, and Judith Leyster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 11. Before him are Gyula Andrássy, Ernest Renan, Sándor Petőfi, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Leopold Kronecker, and Édouard Lalo. After him are Li Hongzhang, Jean-Henri Fabre, John Sherman, John Russell Hind, Charles I of Württemberg, and Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1889, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 11. Before him are Baroness Mary Vetsera, Lucy Webb Hayes, Yohannes IV, Luís I of Portugal, Michel Eugène Chevreul, and Father Damien. After him are Mihai Eminescu, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Wilhelm Tempel, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Wilkie Collins, and Charles III, Prince of Monaco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 804 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles, Duke of Vendôme (1489), Eric Cantona (1966), Bernard Gui (1261), Isabella of Angoulême (1188), Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770), and Jacques Audiard (1952). After him are Jean Meslier (1664), Catherine Labouré (1806), Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jacques Tati (1907), and Juliette Binoche (1964).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Alexandre Cabanel ranks 62. Before him are Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), Jan Gossaert (1478), Raoul Dufy (1877), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), and Simon Vouet (1590). After him are Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725), Georges Rouault (1871), Martin Schongauer (1450), and Jacques Callot (1592).

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