Joseph Aubert
1849–1924 · French religious painter and stained glass designer
Joseph-Jean-Félix Aubert (20 August 1849 – 23 May 1924) was a French painter who specialised in religious subjects and also worked as a designer of stained glass. He worked in late nineteenth-century France, when religious painting and decorative church art had a strong presence in churches.
In 1873 he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel, one of the most influential academic painters of the period. From then on he devoted himself mainly to religious painting and stained glass design. He is remembered for fresco decorations in churches such as Notre-Dame des Champs in Paris and Notre-Dame de Besançon.
In 1872 he had married the daughter of the mathematician Jean Claude Bouquet, a personal detail that belongs to his biography rather than to his work. His output is less known outside France than that of many contemporaries, but it shows the role of religious decoration in French art of his time.