Algae and Boniface
c. 1857
Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823–1889)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Algae and Boniface, c. 1857. Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823–1889). Oil on canvas; unframed: 62.2 x 68 cm (24 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell 2007.275 Alexandre Cabanel was a leader of the academic artists who rejected the paintings of Édouard Manet and other "realists" from the Salon of 1863, producing a vast outcry that forced the government to organize the alternative Salon des Refusés.
- Maker/Artist
- Cabanel, Alexandre
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 62.2 x 68 cm (24 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: "Alex Cabanel"
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 2007.275
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Elizabeth Ludwig Fennell
- Exhibitions
- Rétrospective Alexandre Cabanel, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (7/10/2010 - 12/5/2010) and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (2/4/2011 - 5/15/2011): "Rétrospective Alexandre Cabanel", ex. cat. no. 26, p. 53.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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