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BAUDRY, PAUL JACQUES

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BAUDRY, See also:PAUL JACQUES AIM$ (1828-1886), See also:French painter, was See also:born at La See also:Roche-sur-See also:Yonne (See also:Vendee). He studied under Drolling, a See also:sound but second-See also:rate artist, and carried off the Prix de See also:Rome in 1850 by his picture of " See also:Zenobia found on the See also:banks of the Araxes." His See also:talent from the first revealed itself as strictly academical, full of elegance and See also:grace, but somewhat lacking originality. In the course of his See also:residence in See also:Italy Baudry derived strong See also:inspiration from See also:Italian See also:art with the mannerism of Coreggio, as was very evident in the two See also:works he exhibited in the See also:Salon of 1857, which were See also:purchased for the Luxembourg: " The Martyrdom of a Vestal Virgin " and The See also:Child." His " See also:Leda.," " St See also:John the Baptist," and a " Portrait of Beule," exhibited at the same See also:time, took a first See also:prize that See also:year. Throughout this See also:early See also:period Baudry commonly selected mythological or fanciful subjects, one of the most noteworthy being " The See also:Pearl and the See also:Wave." Once only did he See also:attempt an See also:historical picture, " See also:Charlotte See also:Corday after the See also:murder of See also:Marat (1861); and returned by preference to the former class of subjects or to See also:painting portraits of illustrious men of his day—Guizot, See also:Charles Gamier, Edmond About. The works that crowned Baudry's reputation were his mural decorations, which show much See also:imagination and a high See also:artistic See also:gift for See also:colour, as may be seen in the frescoes in the See also:Paris Cour de Cassation, at the See also:chateau of See also:Chantilly, and some private residences—the hotel See also:Fould' and hotel Paiva—but, above all, in the decorations of the foyer of the Paris See also:opera See also:house. These, more than See also:thirty paintings in all, and among them compositions figurative of dancing and See also:music, occupied the painter, for ten years. Baudry died in Paris in 1886. He was a member of the Institut de See also:France, succeeding See also:Jean See also:Victor Schnetz. Two of studied See also:jurisprudence at the university of See also:Vienna, he entered the chiefly to See also:botany. His See also:great See also:work, Historia plantarum nova et See also:government service in a legal capacity, and after holding various See also:minor offices was transferred in 1843 to a responsible See also:post on the Lottery See also:Commission. He had already embarked upon politics, and severely criticized the government in a pamphlet, Pia Desideria eines osterreichischen Schriftstellers (1842); and in 1845 he made a See also:journey to See also:England, after which his See also:political opinions became more pronounced. After the Revolution, in 1848, he quitted the government service in See also:order to devote himself entirely to letters.

He lived in Vienna until his See also:

death on the 9th of See also:August 189o, and was ennobled for his work. As a writer of comedies and farces, See also:Bauernfeld takes high See also:rank among the See also:German playwrights of the See also:century; his plots are See also:clever, the situations witty and natural and the diction elegant. His earliest essays, the comedies Leichtsinn aus Liebe (1831); See also:Des Liebes-Protokoll (1831) and See also:Die ewige Lithe (1834); Biirgerlich and Romantisch, (1835) enjoyed great popularity. Later he turned his See also:attention to so-called Salonstileke (See also:drawing-See also:room pieces), notably Aus der Gesellschafi (1866) ; Moderne Jugend (1869), and Der Landfrieden (1869), in which he portrays in fresh, See also:bright and happy sallies the social conditions of the See also:capital in which he lived. A See also:complete edition of Bauernfeld's works, Gesammelte Schriften, appeared in 12 vols. (Vienna, 1871-1873) ; Dramatischer Nachlass, ed. by F. von See also:Saar (1893); selected works, ed. by E. See also:Horner (4 vols., 1905). See A. Stern, Bauernfeld, Ein Dichterportr¢t (189o), R. von See also:Gottschall, " E. von Bauernfeld " (in Unsere Zeit, 1890), and E. Horner, Bauernfeld (1900).

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