Jules Dupre

Jules Dupre born with Nantes, on April 5th, 1811 and died in Isle-Adam, on October 6th, 1899, is a painter related French landscape designer at the school of Barbizon, although it painted there only episodically. Its fraternal relations, romantic, with Theodore Rousseau, often stormy, nearly exclusive at certain periods caused many comments. The reciprocal influence of the two men undoubtedly constitutes one of the keys of their works, the evolution and the comprehension of the French landscape.

Biography

His/her father, originating in Isle-Adam, directed a porcelain factory to Parmain before being established in Nantes. The young boy, teenager, initiate themselves very early with the art of the decoration on ceramics and admired all his life Theodore Géricault, Claude Lorraine the and Rembrandt. In 1823, it arrives at Paris at the twelve years age, it works in an uncle who employs Auguste Raffet, Louis Cabat and Narcisse Diaz of Peña. Then, it is allowed in the workshop of the landscape designer Jean-Marie Diébolt and sells her first paintings in Paris. Become the friend of the landscape designer Louis Cabat, this one persuades it to give up ceramics to paint scenes of kind and landscapes of outdoor. He studies the Dutch painters and in 1831 exposes for the first time to the Living room. He travels to England to study Constable, the Master of the English landscape, which will influence its work deeply. In 1832, it remains in the Berry with Cabat and in 1833 exposes four works to the Living room and obtains a medal of second class as painter of kind and becomes the friend of the painters Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Constant Troyon, Eugene Lami and Theodore Rousseau. He receives the congratulations, with the Living room of 1835, Eugene Delacroix for the invoice of his ciels in his tables and brings together at his place many artists like Ary Scheffer, Antoine-Louis Barye. He travels to Normandy and in the Indre, Barbizon with Rousseau attends. It would have had in 1846 a probable connection with George Sand and tried, without success, to found an independent Living room and without jury. The attribution of the Legion of honor scrambles it with Rousseau which him did not receive it. It has settled with Isle-Adam and devotes to his Article Its pupil and mistress for several years, Helene Quantinet, deceased in 1857; it will be remariera in 1860 with Stéphanie-Augustine Moreau of which it has already two children. It paints sorry and dramatic landscapes and with the poor thatched cottages. It spends the summers to Cayeux-on-Sea, sometimes with Jean-François Millet and painted series of Marines influenced by Gustave Courbet. In 1881, the State buys to him the Morning and the Evening , exposed to the Museum of Luxembourg. In 1889, it is promoted commander of the Légion of honor. He dies with Isle-Adam in 1889 and the product of the sale of its workshop and its collection, by its family in 1890, will rise with 208 660 francs.

Vincent van Gogh and Jules Dupre

Although they probably never met at the time of the Parisian stays of Vincent van Gogh, this last expressed all its life a deep admiration, close to the veneration, for the work of its elder. An about sixty mentions is identifiable, over one fifteen years duration, in the correspondence of van Gogh, generally addressed to his/her Théo brother. These letters contain feverish descriptions of works of Dupre whom it could see. For him, Dupre incarnates the heart of the Romantisme to the Frenchwoman, and it does not cease associating its name with that of Victor Hugo. Speaking about the novel Quatre-vingt-treize which it has just read, it writes: That is painted, I want to say: written like Descamps or Jules Dupre painted . He carries on the work of Dupre a glance of an amazing acuity, he comments on and analyzes the esthetism of Dupre as so only a painter was able to include/understand the motivations conscious or not of another painter.

Sources

the oise of Dupre with Vlaminck, boatmen, painters, and rowers , Somogy editions of art, 2007, ISBN 978-2-7572-0077-3, at the time of the exposure éponyme to the Louis-Salencq Museum of Isle-Adam, 2007.

Works

Tables

Beauvais, hotel of the prefecture of Oise, Landscape , oil on wood, 0,235 X 0,33
Beauvais, departmental museum of Oise:

Mill and field of corn , oil on paper and fabric, 0,45 X 0,375
the white cow , oil on fabric, 0,10 X 0,20

Chantilly, museum Cop:

the holy port Nicolas in Paris , oil on fabric, 0,38 X 0,46
setting Sun , oil on fabric, 0,89 X 1,17

Dijon, Magnin museum, the pond , oil on fabric, 0,405 X 0,33
Laval, museum of the old castle, Landscape with figures , oil on fabric, 0,65 X 0,575
Lille, museum of the Art schools, the Battle of Hondschoote , oil on fabric, 3,70 X 4,48. The landscapes are of Jules Dupre and the characters were painted by Eugene Lami
London, The Wallace Collection, Crossing the Bridge , oil on fabric, 0,484 X 0,64
Lyon, museum of the fine arts, Marine , oil on fabric, 0,555 X 0,85
Marseilles, Grobet-Labadié museum:

Landscape, night effect , oil on paperboard and fabric, 0,15 X 0,18
River with the setting sun , oil on wood, 0,079 X 0,167

New York, Metropolitan Museum off Art, the Loire Valley , oil on wood, 0,273 X 0,489
New York, Frick Collection, the river , oil on fabric, 0,432 X 0,584
Paris, State-owned furniture, the autumn , oil on fabric, 0,32 X 0,46
Paris, museum of Louvre, department of paintings:

Edges of river , oil on wood, 0,152 X 0,255
the feeding trough and the large oak , oil on fabric, 0,82 X 1,20
the pond , oil on fabric, 0,55 X 0,65
the farm , oil on fabric, 0,225 X 0,35
the moors , oil on fabric, 0,66 X 0,925
Navy , oil on fabric, 0,89 X 1,155
Landscape , oil on wood, 0,22 X 0,435
Landscape with river , oil on wood, 0,245 X 0,42
The small cart , oil on fabric, 0,25 X 0,33
Portrait of the artist , oil on fabric, 0,555 X 0,465
Portrait of Mrs Seraille, aunt of the artist , oil on fabric, 0,63 X 0,52
setting Sun after the storm , oil on wood, 0,47 X 0,565
setting Sun on a marsh , oil on wood, 0,52 X 0,76
Cows at the edge of water , oil on wood, 0,24 X 0,325

Paris, museum of Orsay:

the way of the farm , oil on fabric, 0,305 X 0,54
the oak , oil on fabric, 0,60 X 0,73
the pond with the oaks , oil on fabric, 1,02 X 0,84
the pond close to the mill , oil on wood, 0,32 X 0,41
the valve , oil on fabric, 0,51 X 0,69

Rennes, museum of the fine arts:

Landscape , oil on wood, 0,215 X 0,41
Landscape with the pond , oil on wood, 0,22 X 0,32

Rouen, museum of the fine arts, marine Landscape , oil on fabric, 0,735 X 0,92
Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis Art Museum, Landscape with cow , oil on fabric, 0,413 X 0,705
Washington, National Gallery off Art, the ancient oak , oil on fabric, 0,321 X 0,415

Drawings

Paris, museum of Louvre department of Graphic arts:

Farmyard
Man sitting, capped with a hat on broad board
Seen taken in Morvan, around Torcy (Paddle)

Paris, museum Eugene Delacroix, the plain

Copies

the Puy-en-Velay, Crozatier museum, Farmyard , copy painted by François Gabriel de Becdelièvre
the Puy-en-Velay, Crozatier museum, Study of tree trunks , copy painted by François Gabriel de Becdelièvre

Quotations

When I look at a table, the subject is equal for me; I ask: where is the man, where is the poetic one, where is the man. (Jules Dupre)

Nature is nothing, the man is all. (Jules Dupre)

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