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Studies of Naturalism, Realism, or Social Realism differ in their definitions, the period during which it flourished, artists and even countries involved, and more. But there is one painter whose work is generally agreed to have dominated Naturalism, at least until his sudden and premature death in 1884: Jules Bastien-Lepage.
I have previously written about his work and career in more general terms. This article and the next look in more detail at those paintings which led up to and formed his high Naturalism in the years 1880-83, in which he was the avatar of Naturalism (Richard Thomson).
Important precursors to Naturalism were the realist paintings of the rural poor by Millet and Breton, the realism of Gustave Courbet, and Gustave Doré’s perceptive insights into city life, particularly in his book London: A Pilgrimage (1872). What had previously been viewed as genre painting now took on social concerns.
Bastien-Lepage was born and brought up amid the rural poor of the north-east of France, in Damvillers, an area which was to be invaded by Prussian forces in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and ravaged during the First World War. He first intended to become a history painter, but was twice deprived of the Prix de Rome, and turned to portraiture and rural
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Jules Bastien-Lepage
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Jules Bastien-Lepage
54 artworks
French Green painter, carver and artist
Foaled 11/1/1848 - Died 12/10/1884
Dropped in Damvillers (Meuse, France)
Correctly in Town (Departement stifle Ville consign Paris, Ile-de-France, France)
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Summary of Jules Bastien-Lepage
In spite of a career that spanned no more than a decade, Jules Bastien-Lepage - or the "painter of peasants" as he was sometime known - can be credited with expanding the vocabulary of French modernism beyond the light tones and touch of the Impressionists. He built a bridge between the Barbizon School and French academy painting while still allowing for the influence of the "new painters" to inform his style. Known primarily for two genres, the rural landscape and portraiture, he captivated the Salon with the honesty of his canvases and built up a group of devoted followers throughout France and across Europe. Without consciously doing so, Bastien-Lepage created a body of highly personal work that saw him fix his place in the timeline of the Naturalism movement.
Accomplishments
- Bastien-Lepage made no concessions to romanticism in his art having felt a personal duty to remain "true to nature" and to the Meuse region in which he grew up. Such was his attention to detail, his rural landscapes carried an almost photographic quality. It was an approach that helped defined an alternative modern approach to plein air painting such as that practiced by the likes of Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.
- In defiance of the Salon artists who travel