Julien Dupré

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Julien Dupré (born March 18, 1851 in Paris, † April 16, 1910 there ) was a French genre painter .

life and work

Dupré was the son of the jeweler Jean-Marie Pierre Dupré and his wife Marie-Madeleine Pauline Célinie Bouillé, whose family business he was to inherit and continue to run. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the associated closure of the shop, he attended evening classes at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs . He then studied at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts with Isidore Pils (1813–1875) and Henri Lehmann (1814–1882). In the mid-1870s he traveled to Picardy , where he became a pupil of his stepfather Désiré François Laugée (1823-1896) in 1876 , whose daughter Marie Eléonore Françoise he later married.

Julien Dupré mainly painted scenes from the life of the peasants in Normandy and Brittany in the style of Jean-François Millet and Jules Breton . He was one of the best animal painters of his time. Dupré exhibited his works at the Paris salons, received a gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 and was accepted into the Legion of Honor in 1892 . His paintings were valued in the United States and are in the collections of several American museums.

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SURNAME Dupré, Julien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1910
Place of death Paris