Portrait of Jehan Georges Vibert

Jehan Georges Vibert Painting Reproductions 1 of 2

1840-1902

French Academic Classicism Painter

Jehan or Jean-Georges Vibert began his artistic career as an engraver in the workshop of his maternal grandfather, Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet. In April 1857 he enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts, where he remained for six years and studied painting under Félix-Joseph Barrias (1822-1907) and François-Édouard Picot (1786-1868). Vibert's early works are indebted to the subjects and style of Picot. After his debut at the 1863 Salon, Vibert won a medal at the 1864 Salon for Narcissus Transformed into a Flower (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux), despite the scandal caused by the nudity depicted. Another mythological picture, Daphne and Chloe (Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va.), was harshly criticized at the 1866 Salon; one reviewer counseled the artist "to return to the study of nature, take on a live model." Meanwhile, the genre painting Entrance of the Toreros (private collection) he had submitted to the same Salon enjoyed a positive response. Vibert realized that he would achieve greater financial and popular success with smaller genre canvases than with larger mythological and historical paintings. Possessed of a cynical wit and great technical ability, he produced numerous anecdotal pictures that satirized the Catholic Church. Never completely abandoning his aspirations to the "higher" genres, he showed an ambitious allegorical painting, the monumental Apotheosis of Adolphe Thiers (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), at the 1878 Salon, but it, too, elicited extremely negative responses, though it was bought by the state. Also interested in the technique of watercolor, Vibert was a founding member of the Society of French Watercolorists in 1878 and served as its first president. He invented a number of products for painters, including special varnishes, brushes, and a red paint, which he named "Vibert Red" and used for his many images of cardinals. Vibert was intensely involved in the theater and wrote several satirical plays in the style of Molière, whom he greatly admired. He married one of the leading actresses of the Comédie Française, Maria Lloyd, but they divorced in 1887. He wrote frequently on art matters, and at the time of his death in 1902 he was compiling an autobiography, illustrated with reproductions of his paintings.

31 Jehan Georges Vibert Paintings

The Marvelous Sauce, c.1890 by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

The Marvelous Sauce c.1890

Oil Painting
$1890
Canvas Print
$59.23
SKU: VJG-4905
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 64 x 81 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA

An Afternoon Libation, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

An Afternoon Libation n.d.

Oil Painting
$2823
SKU: VJG-4906
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

La Sieste, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

La Sieste n.d.

Oil Painting
$1487
SKU: VJG-4907
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Reproach, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

The Reproach n.d.

Oil Painting
$3365
SKU: VJG-4908
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Church in Danger, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

The Church in Danger n.d.

Oil Painting
$3161
SKU: VJG-4909
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Rest, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Rest n.d.

Oil Painting
$1307
SKU: VJG-4910
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Spanish Saddle Maker, 1873 by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

The Spanish Saddle Maker 1873

Oil Painting
$2502
SKU: VJG-4911
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Un Scandale, 1889 by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Un Scandale 1889

Oil Painting
$2974
SKU: VJG-4912
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Figaro and a Priest, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Figaro and a Priest n.d.

Oil Painting
$1463
SKU: VJG-4913
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Les Journaux, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Les Journaux n.d.

Oil Painting
$3915
SKU: VJG-4914
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Sick Doctor, 1892 by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

The Sick Doctor 1892

Oil Painting
$3589
SKU: VJG-4915
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Why Comes He Not, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Why Comes He Not n.d.

Oil Painting
$3414
SKU: VJG-4916
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Calling the Roll after the Pillage, 1866 by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Calling the Roll after the Pillage 1866

Oil Painting
$11790
Canvas Print
$50.22
SKU: VJG-4917
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 61 x 102 cm
Private Collection

The Serenade, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

The Serenade n.d.

Oil Painting
$3119
SKU: VJG-4918
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Reading Rabelais, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Reading Rabelais n.d.

Oil Painting
$1536
SKU: VJG-4919
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Autumn Flowers, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Autumn Flowers n.d.

Oil Painting
$3837
SKU: VJG-4920
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

A Plate of Cakes, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

A Plate of Cakes n.d.

Oil Painting
$3222
SKU: VJG-4921
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The View, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

The View n.d.

Oil Painting
$2461
Canvas Print
$50.22
SKU: VJG-4922
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 35 x 27.7 cm
Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, USA

Francois Guizot, c.1878 by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Francois Guizot c.1878

Oil Painting
$1176
Canvas Print
$61.17
SKU: VJG-4923
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 100 x 81 cm
Museum of Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

A Fine Point, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

A Fine Point n.d.

Oil Painting
$2782
SKU: VJG-4924
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Convent Choir, 1865 by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

The Convent Choir 1865

Oil Painting
$2615
SKU: VJG-4925
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Un secret d'etat, 1875 by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Un secret d'etat 1875

Oil Painting
$3011
SKU: VJG-4926
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Duet, 1897 by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

The Duet 1897

Oil Painting
$3079
SKU: VJG-4927
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Cardinal Reading a Letter, n.d. by Jehan Georges Vibert | Painting Reproduction

Cardinal Reading a Letter n.d.

Oil Painting
$3011
SKU: VJG-4928
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

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