Tableau DUPRE Attributed French Barbizon Landscape 19th Century

  

Nantes, 1811 - L'Isle-Adam, 1889. 16.2 x 32.5 cm.

From 1833, Jules Dupré was noticed at the Salon for his technique. "His landscape, with a hedge in the middle, although imbued with the memory of Karle [sic] Dujardin, shows such a precise touch in the foliage, a way of modeling the terrain so rich and powerful, a happy disposition of light, that one remains uncertain if one. Should not abandon oneself without restriction to the hope that this remarkable beginning gives rise to" (Charles Lenormant, critic). Naturally, one thinks of an influence of the Flemish and Dutch masters. In the 1840s, he met the great nature-loving landscapist Théodore Rousseau and they worked together outdoors and in a shared studio in L'Isle Adam.

Our painting is characteristically marked by the northern landscape painters in the composition and realistic description of nature that Juels Dupré was able to deepen alongside Théodore Rousseau. But there is also an influence of Gustave Courbet with a very materialistic painting and a true light that could be here that of the Ile-de-France.