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Julien Dupré paints rural life and fieldwork in a naturalistic manner, attentive to observation and light. He studies at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the studios of Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann, as well as with Désiré François Laugée. He exhibits regularly at the Salon de Paris from 1876 to 1910.
His early compositions depict harvest scenes, particularly in Picardy; from 1880 onwards, he also paints animals observed in the countryside. His view of the rural world is rooted in naturalist painting; he admires Jean-François Millet and Jules Breton, and gives light a place in his depictions of rural life. He works between his Paris studio on boulevard Flandrin, shared with Georges Laugée, and the countryside, where he paints from the motif.
Presented at the Salon des artistes français in 1881, his painting Les Foins earns him a second-class medal. In 1887, he exhibits abroad for the first time, at the Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition. He becomes a member of the Salon Jury Committee in 1890 and receives the Légion d’honneur in 1892. Works by Dupré are recorded in public collections: La Fenaison at the Saint-Louis Museum of Art and La Vache blanche, dated around 1890, at the Musée d’Orsay.
This profile brings together identity references for Julien Dupré and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Genève Enchères · Ketterer · Piguet
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Oil on canvas
Paysage de campagne,
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2025-06-05 — 2025-06-18
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Oil on canvas
Laitière avec son troupeau.
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2022-05-06
Published result : 13000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 18000
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La Fenaison (Die Heuernte)
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2017-11-24
Published result : 55000 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 30000
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Grasende Kuh.
Öl auf Malkarton
Catalogue period : 2013-11-09
Published result : 700 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000
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Oil on canvas
La gardienne de moutons
huile sur toile
Date to be documented
Published result : 11000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 8000–12000
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Oil on canvas
Paysage de campgane,
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2013-12-11
Published result : 2800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
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Oil on canvas
La Bergère avec son troupeau
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2012-03-14
Published result : 7000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 8000–12000
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