Jules Eugène Lenepveu

Who was Jules Eugène Lenepveu?

Jules Eugène Lenepveu Boussaroque de Lafont, known as Jules Eugène Lenepveu was a French painter.

Born at Angers, he studied at the école des Beaux-Arts, and later he was a pupil of François-Édouard Picot in Paris. He entered the École nationale. After winning the Prix de Rome, he went to Rome to complete his education. He became famous for his vast historical canvases, including the ceilings of the Opéra de Paris, and of the theatre at Angers. He was director of the French Academy in Rome from 1873 to 1878.

In 1900, 2 years after his death, a monument to him was put up in the courtyard of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, and a pedestrianised street in Angers was later named after him.