Alexandre Cabanel was the favorite painter of Napoleon III and probably was the most proficient of the artists who created large paintings featuring themes from the Ancient or Biblical world.  He entered the Parisian Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1840 when he was seventeen years old. 

Fallen Angel

Cabanel won the Prix de Rome five years later.  By 1863 he was firmly established as one of the leaders of the French Academicians and he won the Grand Medal of Honor in the Paris Salons of 1865, 1867 and 1878.  Many thought that Cabanel and his students dominated official artistic circles in France until the artist's death in 1889.  

I offer a reproduction of this magnificent artwork depicting the fierce resentment of one of the fallen angels.