Alexandre Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) was the Salon's favourite painter and Napoleon III's, and The Birth of Venus is the picture that defines the taste of the Second Empire: cool, polished, faintly scandalous. His portraits and mythological scenes are painted with a porcelain finish that flatters both sitter and subject, the high-water mark of French academic art. Every work is reproduced on museum-grade cotton canvas with archival giclee printing, printed to order and hand-framed in your choice of Gold, Silver, or Dark Bronze, sized Small through Estate.