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Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (7 November 1828 – 17 January 1886) was a French painter.

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
Portrait published in L'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
Nationality	French
Occupation	Artist
Awards	Prix de Rome

Life

Baudry was born in 1828 in La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendée. He studied art under Michel Martin Drolling and enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in 1845.[1] He won the Prix de Rome in 1850 for his picture of Zenobia found on the banks of the Araxes.[2]

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 of Correggio, as was very evident in the two works he exhibited in the Salon of 1857, which were purchased for the Luxembourg: The Martyrdom of a Vestal Virgin and The Child.[2]

His Leda, St John the Baptist, and a Portrait 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 being The Pearl and the Wave (1862).

Once only did he attempt an historical picture, Charlotte Corday after the assassination of Marat (1861); 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.[2][3]

The works that crowned Baudry's reputation were his mural decorations, which show much imagination and a high artistic gift for color, as may be seen in the frescoes in the Paris Court of Cassation, at the château de Chantilly, and some private residences the Hôtel Fould and Hôtel Paiva but, above all, in the decorations of the foyer of the Opera Garnier.

These, more than thirty paintings in all, and among them compositions figurative of dancing and music, occupied the painter for ten years. Baudry was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts, succeeding Jean-Victor Schnetz.

Baudry died in Paris in 1886.[2] He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris with a huge and highly sculptural monument.

Honours

• 1878 : Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium[4]

Legacy

Two of his colleagues, Paul Dubois and Marius Jean Mercié, co-operating with his brother, Baudry the architect, erected his funeral monument in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris (1890).[2]

The statue of Baudry at La Roche-sur-Yon (1897) is by Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Gallery

• 
  Euterpe (détail) at the Grand foyer of the Opera Palais.
• 
  Zenobia Found by the Shepherds c. 1848
• 
  Venus and Cupid, 1849
• 
  Jacob Wrestling
  with the Angel, 1853
• 
  Diana Reposing, c. 1859, Walters Art Museum
• 
  The Pearl and the Wave, 1862, Prado
• 
  Crouching Nude Male Figure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1864–74
• 
  Seated Male Nude (recto); Crouching Male Nude (verso) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1864–74
• 
  Study for the Muse Thalia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

See also

• List of works by Paul Dubois (sculptor)
• List of works by Antonin Mercié

References and sources

References

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baudry, Paul Jacques Aimé". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• H. Delaborde, Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Baudry (1886); Ch. Ephrussi, Baudry, sa vie et son oevre (1887). (H. FR.)
• Grunchec, P. (1985). The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the École des Beaux-Arts, 1797-1863. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. ISBN 0883970759.

На других языках

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[de] Paul Baudry

Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry (* 7. November 1828 in La Roche-sur-Yon (Département Vendée); † 17. Januar 1886 in Paris) war ein französischer Maler.

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- [en] Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry

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[es] Paul Baudry

Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry (7 de noviembre de 1828 - 17 de enero de 1886), pintor francés, fue uno de los más célebres representantes del academicismo durante el Segundo Imperio.

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[fr] Paul Baudry

Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry né à La Roche-sur-Yon[Note 1] le 7 novembre 1828[1] et mort à Paris le 17 janvier 1886 est un peintre français.

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[it] Paul Baudry

Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry (La Roche-sur-Yon, 7 novembre 1828 – Parigi, 17 gennaio 1886) è stato un pittore francese.

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[ru] Бодри, Поль

Поль Жак Эме Бодри (фр. Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry; 7 ноября 1828, Ла-Рош-сюр-Йон, Вандея, Франция — 17 января 1886, Париж) — французский живописец, один из наиболее известных представителей академического направления времён Второй империи.

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