Édouard Dubufe

Édouard Dubufe ( born April 2, 1819 in Paris, † August 10 1883 in Versailles) was a French painter.

His first artistic instruction received Dubufe by his father, the painter Claude Marie Dubufe; later he became a pupil of Paul Delaroche. At age 19, debuted Dubufe with two works at an exhibition.

Between 1840 and 1845 treated Dubufe exclusively religious themes with which he could achieve but neither artistic nor financial success. That's why he moved to portraiture, in which he was very successful. Only in the time of the February Revolution of 1848 until the establishment of the Second Empire, he was condemned by the political circumstances to do nothing.

With his portrait of the Empress Eugénie, he won the court society as principal. But colleagues like Rosa Bonheur and her brother Auguste, whose acquaintance he made on the occasion of the exhibition of the Paris Salon in 1848, Dubufe could represent in their inherent characteristics.

1857 got Dubufe at the request of Emperor Napoleon III. the order to represent all participants at the Paris Congress in a monumental paintings. At the exhibition of the Paris Salon of 1866 took Dubufe with the great religious paintings The Prodigal Son in part. In style and execution Dubufe it took great bonds with Paolo Veronese and probably fell exactly why at the official art criticism as well as also by the audience.

Dubufe artistic work is made from then on mostly of portraits. Since his Contre Fait of the Empress Eugénie he was a popular portraitist. The composer Charles Gounod François he portrayed as the writer Alexandre Dumas, Émile Augier and Alfred de Musset.

At the age of 63 years the painter Édouard Dubufe died on August 10, 1883 in Versailles.

Works (selection)

• Annunciation (1839 )
• Diana (1839 )
• Empress Eugénie
• Rosa Bonheur
• Auguste Bonheur
• The Paris Congress

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• French Painter
• Born in 1819
• Died in 1883
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