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Alexandre Cabanel was born in Montpellier,
and studied in Paris. He won the Prix de Rome in 1845. He became
famous with his painting named "Birth of Venus" (1863), now
in the Orsay museum. No longer later, he entered the franch
Institute and became one of the most popular portrait of that
period. he eachedpainting to a number of famous artists, as
Henri Gervex (1852-1929), Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924),
Henri Léopold Lévy, Henri Régnault (1843-1871)...
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