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Rodolphe Julian (13 June 1839 - 2 February 1907) was a French painter and founder of the Academie Julian.

Biography
He was born in Lapalud in the Vaucluse. His mother Sophie Favier and his father Pierre Louis Julian were not married at the time he was born. Eventually they married on 20 April 1847 which helped to legitimize Rodolphe and his older sister, Julia Louise Clara Mathilde, born 2 August 1834. He was married to the painter Amélie Beaury-Saurel

Academie Julian
From 1863 Rudolph began exhibiting in trade shows. His first at the 'Salon des Refuses' included six paintings and two heads of study. Au Salon de 1865 il présenta deux œuvres qui furent admirées par le critique G. At the Salon of 1865 he presented two works which were admired by the critic G. Privat qui écrivit: Privat who wrote:

« Julian me console heureusement de cette peinture fade et décolorée. "Julian consoles me happily painting the bland and colorless. Ces deux figures de femmes La Jeune Fille et Désolée sont bien dessinées, bien peintes, d'un ton agréable, d'une originalité incontestable [ 1 ] . » The two female figures and the Maiden Sorry are well drawn, well painted, a pleasant tone, an undeniable originality [1]. "

Il installa, à partir de 1866 au 36 rue Vivienne, où il habitait, un atelier de peintre [ 1 ]. He established, from 1866 at 36 Rue Vivienne, where he lived, an artist's studio [1].

En 1868, il fonda une Académie qui porta son nom. In 1868, he founded an academy that bears his name. Homme d'affaires avisé, Julian sut attirer des étudiantes et des artistes de renom au sein de son école. A shrewd businessman, Julian was able to attract students and renowned artists in her school. Les femmes ayant pour vocation la peinture pouvaient y réaliser des modèles masculins nus alors qu'elles étaient habituellement refusées dans les autres écoles [ 1 ]. Women who intended the painting could make them naked male models as they were usually excluded in the other schools [1].

Rodolphe Julian meurt à Paris le 2 février 1907 d'une embolie consécutive aux suites d'une phlébite. Rodolphe Julian died in Paris on 2 February 1907 an embolism in a row after a phlebitis. Son corps repose au cimetière de Lapalud [ 1 ]. His body rests in the cemetery Lapalud