Jules Louis Dupré (; April 5, 1811 – October 6, 1889) was a French painter, one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If

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stands for the lyric and

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for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of its tragic and dramatic aspects.

Biography

Dupré was born in

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. He exhibited first at the

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in 1831, and three years later was awarded a second-class medal. In the same year, he came to England where he was impressed by the genius of

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. From then on, he learned how to express movement in nature; and the districts around

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and

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, with their wide, unbroken expanses of water, sky and ground, gave him good opportunities for studying the tempestuous motion of storm-clouds and the movement of foliage driven by the wind. He was named an Officer of the French

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in 1848. His daughter Therese-Marthe-Francoise also became a painter. Dupré's colour is sonorous and resonant. He showed preference for using dramatic sunset effects and stormy skies and seas as the subjects of his paintings. Late in life he changed his style and gained appreciably in largeness of handling and arrived at greater simplicity in his colour harmonies. Among his chief works are the ''Morning and Evening'' at the

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, and the early ''Crossing the Bridge'' in the

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Selected paintings

File:Jules Dupré - Le moulin à vent.jpg, ''The Windmill'' (1850s) File:The Old Oak by Jules Dupré, c1870.jpg, ''The Old Oak'' (1870)

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. File:Jules Dupré - Sur le chemin (1856).jpg, ''On the Road'' (1856)

References

External links

''Environs de Plymouth''
- Rehs Galleries' biography on Jules Dupré and an image of his early painting ''Environs de Plymouth''.
''Degas: The Artist's Mind''
exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art fully available online as PDF, which contains material on Jules Dupré (see index) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dupre, Jules 1811 births 1889 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters French landscape artists Officers of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French male artists