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Jules Bastien-Lepage
French Naturalist painter, sculptor &
printmaker
born 1 November 1848 - died 10 December 1884
Born in: Damvillers (Meuse, France).
Died in: Paris (Département de Ville de
Paris, Ile-de-France, France).
Student of:
Alexandre Cabanel
(1823-1889)
Teacher of: Maria Konstantinowna
Bashkirtseff (1858-1884)
Influence on: Stanhope Alexander Forbes
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BASTIEN-LEPAGE, JULES
(1848-1884), French painter, was born in the
village of Damvillers, Meuse, France, on the
1st
of November 1848 and spent Jules
Bastien-Lepage’s childhood there. Jules
Bastien-Lepage first
studied at Verdun, and prompted by a love of
art went in 1867 to Paris, where Jules
Bastien-Lepage was
admitted to the École des Beaux-arts,
working under Cabanel. After exhibiting in
the
Salons of 1870 and 1872 works which
attracted no attention, in 1874 Jules
Bastien-Lepage made
Jules Bastien-Lepage’s mark with Jules
Bastien-Lepage’s Song of Spring, a study of
rural life, representing a peasant girl
sitting on a knoll looking down on a
village. Jules Bastien-Lepage’s Portrait of
my Grandfather, exhibited in the same year,
was not less remarkable for its artless
simplicity and received a third-class medal.
TJules Bastien-Lepage’s success was
confirmed in 1875 by the First Communion, a
picture of a little girl minutely worked up
as to color, and a Portrait of M. Hayern. |
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In 1875 Jules Bastien-Lepage took the second Prix de Rome with
Jules Bastien-Lepage’s Angels appearing to
the Shepherds, exhibited again in 1878.
Jules Bastien-Lepage’s next endeavour to win
the Grand Prix de Rome in 1876 with Priam at
the Feet of Achilles was again unsuccessful
(it is in the Lille gallery), and the
painter determined to return to country
life. To the Salon of 1877 Jules
Bastien-Lepage sent a
full-length Portrait of Lady L. and My
Parents; and in 1878 a Portrait of M.
Theuriet and The Hayfield. The last picture,
now in the Luxembourg, is regarded as a
typical work from its stamp of realistic
truth. Thenceforth Bastien-Lepage was
recognized in France as the leader of a
school, and Jules Bastien-Lepage's Portrait
of Mine Sarah Bernhardt (1879), painted in a
light key, won him the cross of the Legion
of Honor. |
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In 1880 Jules Bastien-Lepage exhibited a small portrait of M.
Andrieux and Joan Of Arc listening to the
Voices; and in the same year, at the Royal
Academy, the little portrait of the Prince
of Wales. In
1881 Jules Bastien-Lepage painted The Beggar and the Portrait
Of Albert I Wolf; in 1882 Le Pre Jacques; in
1888 Love in a Village, in which we find
some trace of Courbet's influence. |
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Jules
Bastien-Lepage's last dated work is The
Forge (1884). The artist, long ailing, had
tried in vain to re-establish Jules
Bastien-Lepage’s health in Algiers. Jules
Bastien-Lepage died
in Paris on the 10th of December 1884, when
planning a new series of rural subjects.
Among Jules Bastien-Lepage's more important
works, may also be mentioned the portrait of
Mme J. Drouet (1883); Gambetta on Jules
Bastien-Lepage’s death-bed, and some
landscapes; The Vintage (1880), and The
Thames at London (1882). The Little
Chimney-Sweep was never finished. An
exhibition of Jules Bastien-Lepage’s
collected works was opened in March and
April 1885. See A. Theuriet, Bastien-Lepage
(1885 English edition, 1892); L. de
Fofircaud, Bastien-Lepage (1885). (H. Fa.) |
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