Jehan George Vibert
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On my last assignment I had done my work on Jehan-Georges Vibert's "Around The World." While viewing Vibert's other work I noticed many characteristics that were apparent in all his work. Jehan Vibert lived a very interesting life and I was very pleased to read and learn about it.
He was Born on September 30th, 1840 in France. Early on in his life he was trained under Barrias and at the age of 17 he entered into the Eoole des Beaux Arts. Throughout the early part of his career he had painted mostly dramatic and serious subjects like the "Death of Narcissus Around the year of 1867 he had changed his style to work such as "The barber of Ambulart" instead of heroic Christians and tragic mythology. " Now he put all his work into comedy and satire. He also wrote several comedy plays which were produced at Paris theaters such as the Vaudeville. He gathered much of his subject matter from the French Lafotaine and the satirist Jonathan Swift.
In 1870 while Paris was in war with the Prussians Vibertfought and and was wounded at the battle of Malmaison where he would earn knighthood as the legion of honor...