Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884)

Professions: Painter

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  Jules Bastien-Lepage , French 1848-1884 Le Petit Lord oil on canvas

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  BASTIEN-LEPAGE, JULES. (1848 - 1884). Pays-village. Huile sur toile. Signé. 70x91 cm.

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Jules Bastien-Lepage Biography

(b Damvillers, Meuse, 1 Nov 1848; d Paris, 10 Dec 1884). French painter. Bastien-Lepage grew up on a farm. Although his earliest efforts in drawing were encouraged, his parents violently objected when he decided to become a professional artist. To mollify them he worked for a time as a postal clerk in Paris while studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1868 he left the civil service and was accepted into Alexandre Cabanel’s atelier. During this apprenticeship, Bastien-Lepage won two prizes in drawing, and in 1870 he made his début at the Salon with a Portrait of a Young Man (untraced). In the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) he joined a regiment of sharpshooters and was severely wounded in the chest. When he recovered he attempted unsuccessfully to find work as an illustrator. A pastiche of Watteau was accepted at the Salon in 1873, and two further canvases in 1874—an allegory, Song of Spring (Verdun, Mus. Princerie), and Portrait of my Grandfather (Nice, Mus. B.-A.), the critical success of which launched his career.

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