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( 1851 – 1910 )

“Gardeuse de Moutons”

Specifications

MediumOil on canvas
SignedSigned lower right
Size18.00" × 24.00" (45.7cm × 61.0cm)
Framed Size25.00" × 31.00" (63.5cm × 78.7cm)
Dated c. 1890
ConditionVery good condition
ProvenancePrivate collection - Switzerland

Summary

A shepherdess seated on a felled log at the edge of a wide Normandy pasture, her flock settled in the grass around her and cattle grazing beyond. She wears the blue-striped bodice, blue apron and white coif of the northern French countrywoman, her crook held loosely in one hand, her sabots planted in the grass, and she has turned her head to look directly out of the picture with an expression of complete unselfconsciousness. Behind her the meadow runs flat to a low horizon under a high sky of cumulus, the light broad and moving, the middle distance dissolving into pale green and lilac. Dupré paints the sheep with an animalier's accuracy — the weight of the fleeces, the individual set of each head — and handles the foreground grass in loose, bright strokes that carry real air. This is the naturalism of Bastien-Lepage and Jules Breton rather than the sentiment of the salon pastoral: a girl at work, painted as she was. Born in Paris to a jeweller, Dupré was intended for the family lace business until the war of 1870 closed it. He studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs and then at the École des Beaux-Arts under Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann, and later alongside Georges Laugée under Désiré Laugée in Picardy, which turned him decisively towards rural subjects. He debuted at the Salon in 1876 and exhibited there every year until his death. The French State bought Les Lieurs de gerbes (1878), La Vache échappée (1885), La Vache blanche (1890) and Vallée à Archelles (1894); he won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 and was made Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He was hugely popular with American collectors in the Gilded Age, and remains so
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    Julien Dupre

    Julien Dupré was a pupil of Pils and Lehmann. He took part in the Salon from 1876 to 1881, obtaining a third class medal in 1880 and a second class medal in 1881. He was awarded a silver medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in…

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