![]() Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry was a French painter.īaudry was born on the 7th of November, 1828 at La Roche-sur-Yonne, Vendee, France. These, more than thirty paintings in all, and among them compositions figurative of dancing and music, occupied the painter, for ten years. The works that crowned Baudry's reputation were his mural decorations, which show much imagination and a high artistic gift for colour, as may be seen in the frescoes in the Paris Cour de Cassation, at the chateau of Chantilly, and some private residences-the hotel Fould and hotel Paivabut, above all, in the decorations of the foyer of the Paris opera house. ![]() ![]() " Once only did he attempt an historical picture, "Charlotte Corday after the murder of Marat" (1861) and returned by preference to the former class of subjects or to painting portraits of illustrious men of his day-Guizot, Charles Garnier, Edmond About. Throughout this early period Baudry commonly selected mythological or fanciful subjects, one of the most noteworthy being "The Pearl and the Wave. " His "Leda, " "St John the Baptist, " and a "Portrait of Beule, " exhibited at the same time, took a first prize that year. ![]() In the course of his residence in Italy Baudry derived strong inspiration from Italian art with the mannerism of Coreggio, as was very evident in the two works he exhibited in the Salon of 1857, which were purchased for the Luxembourg: "The Martyrdom of a Vestal Virgin" and "The Child. (age 57) La Roche-sur-Yonne, Vendee, France ![]()
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