Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, 1878 - Graziella - fine art print

Artwork description from the museum's website (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Winner of the coveted Prix de Rome in 1861, Lefebvre fulfilled his early promise both as a painter of meticulously executed portraits and nudes and as a teacher: during his long career, he earned three Salon medals, was appointed to the French Academy of Fine Arts, and attained the rank of Commander in the Legion of Honor.Catharine Lorillard Wolfe commissioned Graziella in 1878. It depicts the heroine of Alphonse de Lamartine’s popular tale of the same name, which was first published in 1849. The story revolves around the narrator’s love for the beautiful daughter of a Neapolitan fisherman. Lefebvre portrayed her mending a fishing net as she gazes over her shoulder toward the distant simmering profile of Mount Vesuvius.

Graziella is an artpiece by the male artist Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. The original was made with the size of 78 3/4 x 44 1/4 in (200 x 112,4 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the French painter as the technique for the work of art. The artpiece is in the the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 (licensed - public domain). : Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887. The alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 9 : 16, meaning that the length is 45% shorter than the width. Jules-Joseph Lefebvre was a male painter of French nationality, whose art style can primarily be attributed to Realism. The European painter was born in the year 1836 and passed away at the age of 76 in 1912.

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