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

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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

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. 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

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and

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. 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'' -

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, Massachusetts *''Haymaking'' (1892) -

, Massachusetts *''Children Feeding Geese'' (1881) -

, 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.) -

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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) -

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, Paris, France *''Les faucheurs du luzerne'' (1880) -

, Paris, France

Gallery

File:Julien_dupre_e1128_le_repos_dans_les_champs_wm.jpg, ''Le repos dans les champs'' Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City File:Julien_dupre_e1601_la_bergere_wm.jpg, ''La bergère'' Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City File:Julien_dupre_e1416_femme_avec_des_poules_wm.jpg, ''Femme avec des poules'' Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City File:Julien_dupre_e1427_the_milkmaid_wm.jpg, ''The Milkmaid'' Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City

References

Bibliography

External links

Julien Dupré Catalogue Raisonné
research conducted by Howard L. Rehs & Professor Janet Whitmore {{DEFAULTSORT:Dupre, Julien 1851 births 1910 deaths Painters from Paris 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French genre painters Academic art French Realist painters 19th-century French male artists