Felix Joseph Barrias (1822-1907)
[Felix Barrias, Felix-Joseph Barrias]
| Pupil of: | Father and Cogniet |
| Teacher of: | Edgar Degas, Gustave Achille Guillaumet, Jules Tavernier
and Jehan Georges Vibert |
In "The Triumph of Venus"one may obtain a clear comprehension of the manner of composition and treatment of the eminent Frenchartist Felix Joseph Barrias. Barrias is a native of Paris,born in 1822, where his father was a painter on porcelain. This trade the parent taught the son,and he was such an apt scholar that at the age of sixteen he was able to earn his ownliving by it, and to enter the studio of Cogniet for instruction in a higher walk of art. In 1844he captured the Prix de Rome and went to Italy, and his "Exiles of Tiberius" in 1850, which isnow in the Luxembourg collection, confirmed his position and secured him a medal of thefirst cla