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Alexandre Cabanel

Aglaida and Boniface

c. 1857
oil on canvas
62.2 × 68 cm (24.5 × 26.8 in)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Alexandre Cabanel was a leader of the academic artists who rejected the paintings of Édouard Manet and other "realists" from the Salon of 1863, producing a vast outcry that forced the government to organize the alternative Salon des Refusés.

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