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- November 18, 1848, Damvillers, France
- Died:
- December 10, 1884, Paris (aged 36)
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Bastien-Lepage, Jules: Simon Hayem
Simon Hayem, oil on canvas by Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1875. 40.5 × 32.6 cm.
Jules Bastien-Lepage
French painter
Jules Bastien-Lepage (born November 18, 1848, Damvillers, France—died December 10, 1884, Paris) was a French painter of rustic outdoor genre scenes widely imitated in France and England.
Bastien-Lepage studied under Alexandre Cabanel, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1870, and won a medal at the Salon of 1874 for Spring Song, which stylistically owes a little to Édouard Manet. The Hayfield (1878) follows in the tradition of Jean-François Millet and reveals the sentimental element that characterizes Bastien-Lepage’s work. Joan of Arc Listening to the Voices, which represents Joan as a Lorraine peasant, typifies his subject pictures. He was also a portraitist of note.
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