Auguste Alfred Rubé

Auguste Alfred Rubé (20 June 1817 – 13 April 1899) was a French painter noted especially for his theatre decorations.

Biography Born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Rubé was an innovator in the field of theatrical set design. This "decorator of rare ingenuity" focused on a local color search corresponding to the Romantic movement. He had been at a good school with his master Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri, the designer of the Opéra-Comique, whose daughter he had just married. Ciceri had the confidence of Alexandre Dumas, who reported to him and his students, Rubé, Charles Séchan, Jules Diéterle, Édouard Desplechin, but Rubé wanted to do even better: not only did he try to reproduce the landscapes accurately, he made them picturesque. by ; the 3rd act of Joan of Arc, by Mermet; the 3rd act of Delibes' Sylvia (ballet); the 1st and 5th acts of Massenet's The King of Lahore; the 3rd act of Gounod's Polyeucte; the 2nd scene and the 4th act of Verdi's Aida; the 2nd act of Charles-Marie Widor's La Korrigane; the 1st and 4th acts of Gounod's Le tribut de Zamora; the 1st act of Delibes' Namouna; the 1st act of Gounod's Sapho; the 1st and 4th act of Reyer's Sigurd; the 1st act of Messager's Les Deux pigeons; The 3rd act of Patrie, by Émile Paladilhe; the 2nd and 5th acts of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette; the 3rd scene of Saint-Saens's Ascanio. by Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau, in the same theatre.

In 1858, he had painted a superb ceiling for the Théâtre-Français, depicting Apollo riding on Pegasus among the characters who inspired the masterpieces of the tragic and comic French actors, which, consumed by gas, was repainted in 1879 by Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle.

Rubé died on 13 April 1899, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

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