Stanislas Lépine

Bridge in a French city , around 1870, oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm, Vienna, Austrian Gallery

Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine (born October 3, 1835 in Caen , † September 28, 1892 in Paris ) was a French landscape painter .

Life

Stanislas Lépine was born in Normandy , where he often returned to painting in later life. Initially an autodidact , he met Camille Corot around 1860 and became his pupil. The collector Hazard encouraged him during these years, but Lépine received little public attention, although from 1859 to 1889 he exhibited his small-format paintings, made with quick brushstrokes, at the salon every year . On the other hand, he found great esteem among his artist colleagues and received (mainly together with Adolphe-Félix Cals ) at times financial support from Count Armand Doria , with whom he lived and worked at Château d'Orrouy. In particular, he also won the attention of the painter Henri Rouart and the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel . Although he did not feel obliged to any style, he nevertheless took part in the first Impressionist exhibition at Nadar in 1874 . He died completely impoverished in Paris in 1892, a few months after he was able to finish his only public assignment for the Salle des Sciences in the Hôtel de Ville in the French capital. His friends had to hold a collection to even raise the funeral expenses. In December 1892 a retrospective of his works took place in the gallery Durand-Ruel .

meaning

Lépine's artistic role models are Camille Corot and Johan Barthold Jongkind . His work moves between Pre-Impressionism and Impressionism and consists mainly of landscape paintings that are executed with a great love of nature, a sense of light and a narrow color palette. A focus of his motifs are the Seine and depictions of waters, river banks, etc. Lépine's pictures are always calm and unspectacular and are characterized by taste and quality.

Works

Bridge in a French city , around 1870, oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.
The port of Rouen , oil on canvas, 38 × 55.7 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Diederik Bakhuÿs, et al .: A City for Impressionism - Monet, Pissarro, and Gauguin in Rouen (catalog) . Ed .: Laurent Salomé. 1st edition. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen / Skira Flammarion, Rouen / Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-08-124399-6 , p. 206 f .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Lépine, Stanislas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lépine, Stanislas Victor Edouard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Caen
DATE OF DEATH	September 28, 1892
Place of death	Paris

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Diederik Bakhuÿs, et al .: A City for Impressionism - Monet, Pissarro, and Gauguin in Rouen (catalog) . Ed .: Laurent Salomé. 1st edition. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen / Skira Flammarion, Rouen / Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-08-124399-6 , p. 206 f .