Anatomy Lesson. Career He was entrusted with several important official paintings and the decoration of public buildings. Among the first are The Distribution of Awards (1889) at the Palais de l'Industrie, The Coronation of Nicolas II, The Mayors' Banquet (1900), and the portrait group La République Française; and among the second, the ceiling for the Salle des Fêtes (ballroom) at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, and the decorative panels painted in conjunction with Emile-Henri Blanchon for the mairie of the 19th arrondissement, Paris. For this work, Gervex received the Legion of Honour. He also painted, with Alfred Stevens, a panorama, The History of the Century (1889). The Musée du Luxembourg holds his painting Satyr Sporting with a Bacchante, as well as the large Members of the Jury of the Salon (1885). Other pictures of importance, besides numerous portraits in oils and pastel, are The Birth of Venus, Communion at Trinity Church, Return from the Ball, Diana and Endymion, Job, Civil Marriage, At the Ambassadeurs, Yachting in the Archipelago, Diane and Acteon, Nana, and Maternity. While traveling in Russia in 1893, he was commissioned by Czar Nicholas II to paint his coronation and individual portraits of the royal family. In 1913 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. His house and studio at 68 rue de Chavreau in Paris, which he built in the 1890s to give him the space to create large-scale works including his commissions for Nicholas II, was later purchased by dancer Isadora Duncan. Works Students Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) Georges Dubosc (1854-1927) Henry Gerbault (1863-1930) Notes References External links Works of Henri Gervex on Musée d'Orsay Henri Gervex on Base Mistral/Joconde Members of the Académie des beaux-arts 1852 births 1929 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists Academic art Painters from Paris Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century French male artists