Original Antique Alexandre Cabanel Museum Quality Portrait Oil Painting

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Original Antique Alexandre Cabanel Museum Quality Portrait Oil Painting. Once hung at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on loan from Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hammond. It depicts a handsome gentleman of the period. Artist signed upper left. ABOUT THE ARTIST Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier, and was Napoleon III's preferred painter.
Original Antique Alexandre Cabanel Museum Quality Portrait Oil Painting. Once hung at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on loan from Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hammond. It depicts a handsome gentleman of the period. Artist signed upper left. ABOUT THE ARTIST Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier, and was Napoleon III's preferred painter.