Once only did he attempt an historical picture, Charlotte Corday after the assassination of Marat (1861) and returned by preference to the former class of subjects or to painting portraits of illustrious men of his day: Guizot, Charles Garnier, Edmond About. Throughout this early period Baudry commonly selected mythological or fanciful subjects, one of the most noteworthy being The Pearl and the Wave (1862). His Leda, St John the Baptist, and a Portrait of Beul, exhibited at the same time, took a first prize that year. In the course of his residence in Italy Baudry derived strong inspiration from Italian art with the mannerism of Correggio, as was very evident in the two works he exhibited in the Salon of 1857, which were purchased for the Luxembourg: The Martyrdom of a Vestal Virgin and The Child. His talent from the first revealed itself as strictly academical, full of elegance and grace, but somewhat lacking originality. He won the Prix de Rome in 1850 for his picture of Zenobia found on the banks of the Araxes. He studied art under Michel Martin Drolling and enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in 1845. Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry was a French painter.īaudry was born in 1828 in La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendée.
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