Emile dessinant

1879–1882

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 de diciembre de 1884

Died