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OCR: Cabanel Alexandre: 18 1889 nineteenth-century French academic painter of the Second Empire In mid career -he switched from the dry academicism of his teacher Francois Edouard Picot, who taught the Ecole des Beaux- Arts, ta classical themes. Works like Birthofy enus (1862) earned Cabanel high official praise and a position ir the Legion of 1863 In the 1880s Cabanel's eroticized female nudes attracted crowd of imitators During this period Van Gogh was laboring ta position his own ar amidst contemporary trends It is perhaps ironic that, when he visited gallery in Montpellier, Van Gogh was mesmerized by Cabanel's craft Cabanel is known taday as the archenemy af eMuS Honor eroticizec imita positior knowr today Past