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The Pre-Impressionists: Jules Bastien-Lepage

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Jules Bastien-Lepage was born in Damvillers, Meuse in 1848. After studying under Cabanel at the �cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Bastien-Lepage became a ground-breaking plein-air painter of realistic rural scenes, influenced by Courbet and the Barbizon School. Essentially a painter, Jules Bastien-Lepage only made 5 etchings himself, under the tutelage of L�opold Flameng, one of which is Retour des champs. In works such as this, Bastien-Lepage updated Millet's spiritual admiration of the peasant class into an unflinching reportage. Jules Bastien-Lepage, Retour des champs Etching, 1878 Most etchings of the art of Bastien-Lepage are, like this portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, interpretative etchings by others after Bastien-Lepage paintings. In addition to his landscapes, Bastien-Lepage was a sought-after and very accomplished portraitist, though I feel his heart was in his rural scenes. Ricardo de Los Rios, Sarah Bernhardt Etching after Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879 Jules Bastien-Lepage influenc