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Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, French 1836 – 1911
Jules Lefebvre was known in his time as the champion of the elegant and exquisite nude and a devotee of the traditional cult of beauty. Born in Tournan, France, little evidence was given of the brilliant career to come. His father was a baker and it was to this trade that he was initially apprenticed.
At the age of sixteen, after showing a wonderful aptitude for drawing and over his mother’s objections, his father (showing 500 of 3523 characters). |