Alexandre Cabanel
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The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel, 1863
About as approved-of as painting got at the time — the emperor apparently bought it straight off the Salon wall. Two years later Manet showed a nude in a not-so-different pose and Paris was outraged, which suggests the rule was never really about bare skin, but about who was allowed to be bare.
Fallen angel by Alexandre Cabanel, 1847
This is supposed to be Lucifer, watching the other angels head up to heaven without him. Cabanel was apparently in his mid-twenties when he painted it, and it's the piece that got him noticed.