DUPRÉ, Julien
(b. 1851, Paris, d. 1910, Paris)

Haymaking

1892
Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Julien Dupré is considered to be one of the leading exponents of the second generation of Realist painters; a group that also includes Leon Lhermitte, Jules Bastien-Lepage and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. Like Jean-François Millet and Jules Breton, before them, these artists devoted their artistic careers to the depiction of the toils of the French peasant - often seen hard at work in the fields.




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