Jules Bastien-Lepage ( fr. Jules Bastien-Lepage ; November 1, 1848 , Danville , Meuse - December 10, 1884 , Paris ) - French artist, representative of naturalism in painting as an integral part of realism . This was one of the first French artists, along with Jules Breton , who depicted peasant life in the spirit of naturalism. Emil Zola was a friend and admirer of his talent, among his followers was British artist George Clausen .
| Jules Bastien-Lepage | |
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| Birth name | Jules bastien-lepage |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Danville , Meuse , Second French Republic |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Paris Third French Republic |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Genre | |
| Study | School of Fine Arts, Paris |
| Style | realism |
| Awards | Roman Prize |
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Biography
Jules Bastien-Lepage was born into a family of modest landowners and peasants in the town of Danville, Lorraine , studied since 1868 with Alexander Cabanel at the School of Fine Arts in Paris . At school, he became friends with the future realist artist, the one-minded person Pascal Danyan-Bouvre .
After a serious wound during the German-French war of 1870 , he returned to his native village. In 1875, the work “Evangelism to the Shepherds” (l'Annonciation aux bergers) allowed him to become second in the competition for the Roman Prize . From 1879 to 1882 he traveled around England . Already seriously ill with cancer, he took a trip to Algeria .
His paintings are housed in major museums in the world: in Paris, London , New York , Melbourne , Philadelphia . In the Pushkin Museum to them. A.S. Pushkin has two works: “ Village Love ” (1882, oil, 194x179 cm) and “Girl with a Rake” (coal, 49.5x38 cm).
He did not have time to fully express his talent, as he died at the age of 36 in his workshop in Paris . At the burial site in Danville, where there was an orchard, his brother Emile Bastien designed and built a park (Parc des Rainettes). Being already a famous architect, after the death of his brother, Emil became a landscape painter. In the churchyard was a bronze monument to Bastien-Lepage by Auguste Rodin . In 2011, the monument was donated to Armenia on the 20th anniversary of its independence. On October 7, a grand opening of the monument, which became a symbol of friendship between the two states, took place on France Square in Yerevan .
October. Potato Harvesting , 1878, Victoria National Gallery , Melbourne
Joan of Arc , 1879, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
All Saints Day, approx. 1882, Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 RKDartists
- ↑ 1 2 Jules Bastien-Lepage - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
Literature
- Bastien-Lepage, Jules // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Bulgakov, F.I. Jules Bastian-Lepage // One Hundred Masterpieces of Art. - SPb. : ed. ed. "The New Journal of Foreign Literature", 1903. - S. 8-9.
- Angela Schneider, Anke Daemgen, Gary Tinterow. Französische Meisterwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-88609-584-1
- E. Benezit. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs Gründ, Paris, 1999, vol. I, p. 848.
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