Jules-Eugène Lenepveu

Born at Angers, he studied at the école des Beaux-Arts, and later was a pupil of François-Édouard Picot in Paris.

[1] He became famous for his vast historical canvases, including the ceilings of the Opéra de Paris (1869–71; covered by a Marc Chagall work), and of the theatre at Angers (1871).

[1] Between 1886 and 1890, he painted the fresco of the life of Joan of Arc at the Panthéon, Paris.

In 1900, two 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.

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