Alexandre Cabanel

Cabanel is the Salon ideal — smooth, poreless nudes on pearly seas and clouds, flawless finish, sweet mythological subjects with no visible brushwork.

Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) was a painter from France, associated with Academic art.

More Academic art painters: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Hans Makart, Frederic Leighton, Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

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