Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine (October 3, 1835 – September 28, 1892) was a French painter who specialized in landscapes, especially views of the

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Biography

Lépine was born in

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. An important influence in his artistic formation was

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, whom he met in

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in 1859, becoming his student the following year. Lépine's favorite subject was the Seine, which he was to paint in all its aspects for the rest of his life. He is considered a harbinger of the future, heralding the evolution of traditional plein-air landscape painting into Impressionism and modern art. Lépine was part of a movement of artists who painted outside, developing a new visual vocabulary that captured the changeability of nature, an “impression” of a landscape replacing a literal reproduction of it. He participated in the

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, held at

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's in 1874, although he is generally not considered an Impressionist. His paintings are placid in mood and are usually small in scale. Lépine was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 for his painting ''Pont de l'Estacade''. He died suddenly in Paris in 1892.

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Stanislas Lépine
– Rehs Galleries' biography on the artist and an image of his painting ''Navires au Porte'' ().
Stanislas Lépine
Artist biography from Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York 1835 births 1892 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters Artists from Caen Painters from Normandy 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub