Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry | |
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 Portrait published inL'Artiste, 1862 | |
| Born | (1828-11-07)7 November 1828 La Roche-sur-Yon, France |
| Died | 17 January 1886(1886-01-17) (aged 57) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Awards | Prix de Rome |
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (7 November 1828 – 17 January 1886) was a French painter.
Baudry was born in 1828 inLa Roche-sur-Yon in theVendée. He studied art underMichel Martin Drolling and enrolled in theÉcole des Beaux-Arts in 1845.[1] He won thePrix de Rome in 1850[2] for his picture ofZenobia found on the banks of the Araxes.[3]
His talent from the first revealed itself as strictly academical, full of elegance and grace, but somewhat lacking originality. In the course of his residence in Italy Baudry derived strong inspiration from Italian art with the mannerism ofCorreggio, as was very evident in the two works he exhibited in theSalon of 1857, which were purchased for theLuxembourg:The Martyrdom of a Vestal Virgin andThe Child.[3]
HisLeda,St John the Baptist, and aPortrait of Beul, exhibited at the same time, took a first prize that year. Throughout this early period Baudry commonly selected mythological or fanciful subjects, one of the most noteworthy beingThe Pearl and the Wave (1862).
Once only did he attempt an historical picture,Charlotte Corday (1860); and returned by preference to the former class of subjects or to painting portraits of illustrious men of his day:Guizot,Charles Garnier,Edmond About.[3][4]
Baudry's chief legacies were his mural decorations, which show imagination and an artistic gift for color, as may be seen in thefrescoes in the ParisCourt of Cassation, at thechâteau de Chantilly, and some private residences the Hôtel Fould and Hôtel Paiva.
The decorations of the foyer of theOpera Garnier are regarded as his finest achievement.[2] These, more than thirty paintings in all, and among them compositions figurative of dancing and music, occupied the painter for ten years.[2] Baudry was a member of theAcadémie des beaux-arts, succeedingJean-Victor Schnetz.
In the United States, Baudry painted two ceilings in theWilliam K. Vanderbilt House in New York.[2][5]
Baudry died in Paris in 1886.[3] He is buried inPere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris with a huge and highly sculptural monument.
Two of his colleagues,Paul Dubois andMarius Jean Mercié, co-operating with his brother, architectAmbroise Baudry [fr], erected his funeral monument in thePère Lachaise Cemetery in Paris (1890).[3]
The statue of Baudry atLa Roche-sur-Yon (1897) is byJean-Léon Gérôme.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baudry, Paul Jacques Aimé".Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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