Julien Dupré

Julien Dupré (Dupre)
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Born	Julien Dupré (1851-03-18)March 18, 1851 Paris, France
Died	Paris, France
Nationality	French
Known for	Painter
Notable work	The White Cow, Faucheurs de Luzerne, La Recolte des Foins
Movement	French Academic, Realism
Awards	Legion of Honor, 1892

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Glaneuses, 1880
Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City

Julien Dupré (1851–1910) was a French painter.

He was born in Paris on March 18, 1851 to Jean Dupré (a jeweler) and Pauline Bouillié and began his adult life working in a lace shop in anticipation of entering his family's jewelry business. The war of 1870 and the siege of Paris forced the closure of the shop and Julien began taking evening courses at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and it was through these classes that he gained admission to the École des Beaux-Arts.

At l'Ecole he studied with Isidore Pils (1813–1875) and Henri Lehmann (1814–1882). In the mid-1870s he traveled to Picardy and became a student of the rural genre painter Désiré François Laugée (1823–1896), whose daughter Marie Eléonore Françoise he would marry in 1876; the year he exhibited his first painting at the Paris Salon.

Throughout his career Dupré championed the life of the peasant and continued painting scenes in the areas of Normandy and Brittany until his death on April 16, 1910.

Works in public collections

• The Hay Harvest (1881) - Chi Mei Museum, Tainan, Taiwan (R.O.C.).
• Haying Scene (1884) - St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri.
• The Haymakers (1886) - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.
• Return From the Fields (n.d.) - Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
• In Pasture (1882) - Washington University Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri.
• Haying Scene (1882) - Washington University Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri.
• Young Woman Watering Cattle - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Haymaking (1892) - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Children Feeding Geese (1881) - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Peasant Girl with Sheep - The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California.
• Milking Time - The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California.
• Women in the Fields - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.
• The Young Shepherdess - San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California.
• In the Pasture (1883) - University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington. Kentucky.
• Le Ballon (1886) - Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania.
• The Harvesters (1885) - The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida.
• The Harvester (c.1880/1) - Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, W.V.
• Home From the Pasture - Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina

External links

• Julien Dupré Catalogue Raisonné information.
• Julien Dupré: A Survey - Rehs Galleries' exhibition of the artist's work.