Collection: Alexandre Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel (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. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire."

His formative teachers included François-Édouard Picot and Charles Matet. Notable paintings include Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners and The Birth of Venus. His practice spanned history painting, nude, and genre painting. His style aligns with L'art pompier.

He belongs to the Realism movement, more precisely to Academic Art.