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Jules Bastien-Lepage

Born: Damvillers, Meuse, 1 November 1848
Died: Paris, 10 December 1884
Nationality: French
Background: 

farming family; early work as a postal clerk

Studies: 

with artist-father; with Alexandre Cabanel at Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1868)

Career: 

1870 – Paris Salon debut with Portrait of a Young Man (untraced); regular participation in the Salon throughout career

1875 and 1876 – competes for and fails to win Prix de Rome

1879 – exhibits Sarah Bernhardt portrait at Salon, winning him Cross of the Legion of Honor; exhibits portrait of Prince of  Wales at Royal Academy (London)

1880 – exhibits Joan of Arc Listening to the Voices at Salon; exhibits at Grosvenor Gallery (London)

Travels

London (1880); Italy (1880-83)
 

Important Artworks: 

Les Foins (Haymakers), 1877 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

Self-Portrait, c. 1880 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

Le Père Jacques (Wood Gatherer), 1881 (Milwaukee Art Museum)