Jean-Paul Laurens Painting Reproductions 1 of 1
1838-1921
French Academic Classicism Painter
Jean-Paul Laurens (Fourquevaux, 1838 — Paris, 1921), was a French painter and sculptor.
He was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression. His erudition and technical mastery were much admired in his time, but in later years his hyper-realistic technique, coupled to a highly theatrical mise-en-scène, came to be regarded as overly didactic and even involuntarily comical.
Laurens was commissioned to paint numerous public works by the French Third Republic, including the steel vault of the Paris city hall, the monumental series on the life of Saint Genevieve in the apse of the Panthéon, the decorated ceiling of the Odéon Theater, and the hall of distinguished citizens at the Toulouse capitol. He also provided illustrations for Augustin Thierry's Récits des temps mérovingiens ("Accounts of Merovingian Times").
Laurens was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he taught André Dunoyer de Segonzac and George Barbier. Two of his sons, Paul Albert Laurens (1870-1934) et Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932), became painters and teachers at the Académie Julian.
He was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression. His erudition and technical mastery were much admired in his time, but in later years his hyper-realistic technique, coupled to a highly theatrical mise-en-scène, came to be regarded as overly didactic and even involuntarily comical.
Laurens was commissioned to paint numerous public works by the French Third Republic, including the steel vault of the Paris city hall, the monumental series on the life of Saint Genevieve in the apse of the Panthéon, the decorated ceiling of the Odéon Theater, and the hall of distinguished citizens at the Toulouse capitol. He also provided illustrations for Augustin Thierry's Récits des temps mérovingiens ("Accounts of Merovingian Times").
Laurens was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he taught André Dunoyer de Segonzac and George Barbier. Two of his sons, Paul Albert Laurens (1870-1934) et Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932), became painters and teachers at the Académie Julian.
11 Jean-Paul Laurens Paintings
Men of the Holy Office 1889
Oil Painting
$1496
$1496
SKU: LJP-4893
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Augustins museum, Toulouse, France
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Augustins museum, Toulouse, France
The Agitator of Languedoc 1887
Oil Painting
$2316
$2316
SKU: LJP-4894
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Augustins museum, Toulouse, France
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Augustins museum, Toulouse, France
Pope Formosus (816-896) and Pope Stephen VII in 897 1870
Oil Painting
$2471
$2471
SKU: LJP-4895
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
The Last Moments of Maximilian 1882
Oil Painting
$2116
$2116
SKU: LJP-4896
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Florentine n.d.
Oil Painting
$914
$914
SKU: LJP-4897
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Musee Petiet, Limoux, France
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Musee Petiet, Limoux, France
The Excommunication of Robert the Pious 1875
Oil Painting
$2332
$2332
SKU: LJP-4898
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Self Portrait 1876
Oil Painting
$994
$994
SKU: LJP-4899
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Saint John Chrysostom and Empress Eudoxie 1893
Oil Painting
$1514
$1514
SKU: LJP-4900
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Augustins museum, Toulouse, France
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Augustins museum, Toulouse, France
The Cardinal 1874
Oil Painting
$1246
$1246
Canvas Print
$50.13
$50.13
SKU: LJP-4901
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: 81.5 x 57.5 cm
Petit Palais Musee des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: 81.5 x 57.5 cm
Petit Palais Musee des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
Hostages 1896
Oil Painting
$1381
$1381
SKU: LJP-4902
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Musee des Beaux Arts, Lyon, France
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Musee des Beaux Arts, Lyon, France
The Byzantine Emperor Honorius 1880
Oil Painting
$1561
$1561
SKU: LJP-4903
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA
Jean-Paul Laurens
Original Size: unknown
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA