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
Oil Painting
$2020
$2020
Canvas Print
$60.03
$60.03
SKU: VJG-4905
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 64 x 81 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 64 x 81 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
An Afternoon Libation n.d.
Oil Painting
$3017
$3017
SKU: VJG-4906
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
La Sieste n.d.
Oil Painting
$1589
$1589
SKU: VJG-4907
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
The Reproach n.d.
Oil Painting
$3595
$3595
SKU: VJG-4908
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
The Church in Danger n.d.
Oil Painting
$3377
$3377
SKU: VJG-4909
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Rest n.d.
Oil Painting
$1397
$1397
SKU: VJG-4910
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
The Spanish Saddle Maker 1873
Oil Painting
$2674
$2674
SKU: VJG-4911
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Un Scandale 1889
Oil Painting
$3177
$3177
SKU: VJG-4912
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Figaro and a Priest n.d.
Oil Painting
$1563
$1563
SKU: VJG-4913
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Les Journaux n.d.
Oil Painting
$4183
$4183
SKU: VJG-4914
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
The Sick Doctor 1892
Oil Painting
$3836
$3836
SKU: VJG-4915
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Why Comes He Not n.d.
Oil Painting
$3647
$3647
SKU: VJG-4916
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Calling the Roll after the Pillage 1866
Oil Painting
$12598
$12598
Canvas Print
$50.89
$50.89
SKU: VJG-4917
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 61 x 102 cm
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 61 x 102 cm
Private Collection
The Serenade n.d.
Oil Painting
$3333
$3333
SKU: VJG-4918
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Reading Rabelais n.d.
Oil Painting
$1641
$1641
SKU: VJG-4919
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Autumn Flowers n.d.
Oil Painting
$4100
$4100
SKU: VJG-4920
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
A Plate of Cakes n.d.
Oil Painting
$3443
$3443
SKU: VJG-4921
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
The View n.d.
Oil Painting
$2629
$2629
Canvas Print
$50.89
$50.89
SKU: VJG-4922
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 35 x 27.7 cm
Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, USA
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 35 x 27.7 cm
Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, USA
Francois Guizot c.1878
Oil Painting
$1257
$1257
Canvas Print
$61.99
$61.99
SKU: VJG-4923
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 100 x 81 cm
Museum of Palace of Versailles, Paris, France
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: 100 x 81 cm
Museum of Palace of Versailles, Paris, France
A Fine Point n.d.
Oil Painting
$2972
$2972
SKU: VJG-4924
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
The Convent Choir 1865
Oil Painting
$2794
$2794
SKU: VJG-4925
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Un secret d'etat 1875
Oil Painting
$3217
$3217
SKU: VJG-4926
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
The Duet 1897
Oil Painting
$3291
$3291
SKU: VJG-4927
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Cardinal Reading a Letter n.d.
Oil Painting
$3217
$3217
SKU: VJG-4928
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jehan Georges Vibert
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection