Jules-Eugène Lenepveu
Master of grand historical murals
Jules-Eugène Lenepveu Boussaroque de Lafont, known as Jules-Eugène Lenepveu was a French painter. Born at Angers, he studied at the école des Beaux-Arts, and later he was a pupil of François-Édouard Picot in Paris. He entered the École nationale. After winning the Prix de Rome, he went to Rome to complete his education. He became famous for his vast historical canvases, including the ceilings of the Opéra de Paris (1869–71; covered 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. Between 1886 and 1890, he painted the fresco of the life of Joan of Arc at the Panthéon, Paris. In 1900, two 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.
Artworks by this artist
- Jeanne d’Arc devant Orléans 1886-1890
- Sketch of the Dead Christ, and Detail Sketch of Loincloth 1800s
- Le Sacre de Charles VII 1886-1890
- Jeanne d’Arc ayant la vision de l’archange Michel 1886-1890
- Saint Augustin, au concile de Carthage, réconcilie les catholiques et les donatistes. 1873-1875
- Antigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of Her Brother Polynices 1835-98
- Saint Ambroise, évêque de Milan, livre les vases sacrés de son église pour racheter ses prisonniers 1873
- Sketch of the Dead Christ Lying by the Sepulchre 1800s
- La vie de Jeanne d’Arc 1886-1890
- La vie de Jeanne d’Arc 1886-1890
- La vie de Jeanne d’Arc 1886-1890
- Purgatory 1835-98
- La vie de Jeanne d’Arc 1886-1890
- Jeanne d’Arc sur le bûcher 1886-1890
- A Venetian Wedding 1856
- La vie de Jeanne d’Arc 1886-1890
- Saint Ambroise interdit l’entrée du lieu saint à l’empereur Théodose, coupable du meurtre des habitants d’Antioche. 187
- La vie de Jeanne d’Arc 1886-1890