Charles Jalabert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Nîmes, Occitania, France
About Charles Jalabert
- Charles François Jalabert (1819–1901) was a French painter in the academic style.
- He rapidly gained renown as an artist among Parisian high society in the second half of the 19th century and attended the salon of Madame Sabatier.
- Some of his works are now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes. Jalabert was born in Nîmes.
- One of his most famous works was the oil on canvas painting called The Plague of Thebes.
- The painting referred to the Athenian tragedy 'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles.
- Thebes is ravaged by plague as a result of the corruption in the place and the murderer of Laius, the former king of the city.
- The attempts of Oedipus, the incumbent ruler, to allay the plague bring him only to the realization that he is the cause of the plague.
- His murdering his own father and marrying his mother, he comes to see, is what brought the curse to Thebes.
- The Plague of Thebes, and other famous works of Jalabert's, like Oedipus and Antigone, are now on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes.
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