Jules Bastien-Lepage is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Jules Bastien-Lepage as French painter (1848–1884).
Jules Bastien-Lepage was born at Damvillers in 1848. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, printmaker and draftsperson.
His recorded movement is potato.
Among his best-known works are Adolphe Franck (1810-1893), French philosopher, Émile Bastien-Lepage and The Beggar. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
Recognition followed: Prix de Rome (1875) and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jules Bastien-Lepage died in 1884, aged 36. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Prix de Rome — 1875
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Notable work: Adolphe Franck (1810-1893), French philosopher
- Notable work: Émile Bastien-Lepage
- Notable work: The Beggar
- Notable work: October (Saison d'octobre)
- Movement: potato
