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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right
Dated: 1890
Condition: Excellent
Size: 18.00" x 22.00" (45.7cm x 55.9cm)
Framed Size: 23.00" x 27.00" (58.4cm x 68.6cm)
Provenance: Private collection - United States
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 Paris and was decorated with the Légion d'Honneur in 1892.
Early in his career, Dupré was essentially a landscape painter. He devoting himself to animal painting from 1881.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Carcassonne: In the Meadow
Cognac: Harvester
Grenoble: Valley at Archelles
Le Mans: Sheaf Binders
New York (Metropolitan Mus. of Art): Ball
Paris (MAM): White Cow; Mowers
Paris (Mus. du Petit Palais): Milking
Prague: Hay Tedder
St Louis (GA, Washington University): Haying Scene (1882, oil on canvas); Out at Pasture (1882, oil on canvas/aluminium)