Julien Dupré (Dupre)
Julien Dupré
Born
Julien Dupré

(1851-03-18)March 18, 1851
Paris, France
DiedApril 1910 (1910-05) (aged 59)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forPainter
Notable workThe White Cow, Faucheurs de Luzerne, La Recolte des Foins
MovementFrench Academic, Realism
AwardsLegion of Honour, 1892
Gleaners, 1880

Julien Dupré (French pronunciation: [ʒyljɛ̃ dypʁe], March 18, 1851 – April, 1910) was a French painter.[1][2]

Life and career

He was born in Paris on March 18, 1851 to Jean Dupré (a jeweler) and Pauline Bouillié.[1] It was expected that he enter the family business, and to that end Dupré began working in a shop that sold lace. However, his parents were forced to close their shop due to the war of 1870 and the siege of Paris. With time on his hands, Dupré began taking evening courses at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and it was through these classes that he gained admission to the École Nationale et Spéciale des Beaux-Arts.[3]

At l'Ecole he studied with Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann. In the mid-1870s he traveled to Picardy and became a student of the rural genre painter Désiré François Laugée, whose daughter Marie Eléonore Françoise he married in 1876; the year he exhibited his first painting at the Paris Salon.[1]

Dupré received a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 in Paris. In 1892, he was awarded the Legion of Honour.[1]

Dupré was teacher to Lucy Scarborough Conant.[4]

Throughout his career Dupré championed the life of the peasant and continued painting scenes in the areas of Normandy and Brittany. He exhibited regularly until his death in April, 1910.[1]

Works in public collections[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Julien Dupré biographie Peintre". Peintres et Sculpteurs.com (in French). Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Julien Dupre: A Survey". Rehs Galleries. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  3. Rehs (2008), p. 93.
  4. "Dupré, Julien (French painter, 1851-1910)". Getty Research Institute. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  5. Hsu, Yu Han. "The Hay Harvest". Chimei Museum. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  6. "Woman Harvesting Hay". The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  7. "Julien Dupré: La vache blanche". Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  8. "Julien Dupré: Les faucheurs du luzerne". Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

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