Jules Bastien-LepageFrench, 1848–1884Emile dessinant
May one see it?
Unknown
Where is “Emile dessinant” now? Collection: Musée de la Princerie, Verdun. Unknown.
Verdun, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 81.1.455
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée de la Princerie
- Image: Musée de la Princerie — © Jean-Marie Perraux; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
Meanwhile, in the life of Jules Bastien-Lepage
The whole life1879–1882
Travels in England
From 1879 to 1882 Bastien-Lepage travels in England.
1880–1883
Travels in Italy
From 1880 to 1883 Bastien-Lepage travels in Italy.
1883
By 1883 a critic says everyone paints like Bastien-Lepage
Bastien-Lepage’s fame is such that by 1883 a critic remarks that so many artists now paint in his manner that he seems to paint like everyone. His en plein air scenes of peasant life strongly influence many artists abroad, among them George Clausen in England and Tom Roberts in Australia.
1883
Made a Knight of the Order of Leopold
In 1883 Bastien-Lepage is made a Knight of the Order of Leopold; the same year he paints the portrait of Mme J. Drouet.
1884
Marie Bashkirtseff dies in the same year as he does
Marie Bashkirtseff, a close friend of Bastien-Lepage and a Ukrainian-born painter who took her cue from his admiration for nature, scores a great success at the Salon of 1884 with “A Meeting” (now in the Musée d’Orsay) and dies of chronic illness the same year, as he does.
10 December 1884
Died
