Julien Dupré (, March 18, 1851 – April, 1910) was a French painter.
Life and career
He was born in Paris on March 18, 1851 to Jean Dupré (a jeweler) and Pauline Bouillié. It was expected that he enter the family business, and to that end Dupré began working in a shop that sold lace. However, his parents were forced to close their shop due to the war of 1870 and the siege of Paris. With time on his hands, Dupré began taking evening courses at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and it was through these classes that he gained admission to the École Nationale et Spéciale des Beaux-Arts.
At l'Ecole he studied with Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann. In the mid-1870s he traveled to Picardy and became a student of the rural genre painter Désiré François Laugée, whose daughter Marie Eléonore Françoise he married in 1876; the year he exhibited his first painting at the Paris Salon.
Dupré received a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 in Paris. In 1892, he was awarded the Legion of Honour.
Dupré was teacher to Lucy Scarborough Conant.
Throughout his career Dupré championed the life of the peasant and continued painting scenes in the areas of Normandy and Brittany. He exhibited regularly until his death in April, 1910.
Works in public collections Source: The Hay Harvest (1881) - Chimei 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 in St. Louis Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Haying Scene (1882) - Washington University in St. Louis 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 (n.d.) - The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Milking Time (n.d.) - The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Women in the Fields (n.d.) - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine The Young Shepherdess (n.d.) - 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, West Virginia Home From the Pasture (n.d.) - Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina Woman Harvesting Hay (n.d.) - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The White Cow (La vache blanche) (ca. 1890) - Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Les faucheurs du luzerne (1880) - Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
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External links
Julien Dupré Catalogue Raisonné research conducted by Howard L. Rehs & Professor Janet Whitmore