Jules Dupré (Kunst)

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Jules Dupré (1811-1889) was born in Nantes, France, April 11, 1811 to an acclaimed porcelain artist. In 1882, under his father’s direction, Dupré began his artistic career as an apprentice porcelain painter. While training with his father, Dupré also created simple landscape drawings and paintings from nature.

Dupré visited Parisin 1829 under the influence of his friend, the artist Louis Cabat. It was during this time he met other artists such as Maurice Decamps, Philippe Auguste Jeanron and Paul Huet. In 1831 Dupré traveled to Great Britainto study paintings by the English landscape artists, a trend of the early 19th century French artists. Dupré eventually returned to his origins inFrance and began to travel extensively through the French provinces. At this time, he began blending the styles of the English landscape artists with those of theBarbizonSchool inFrance.

In the early 1830’s Dupré began exhibiting his works. He obtained official recognition in 1835, when he exhibited four landscapes at the Salon and received a third class medal. Dupré also started to display works in regional exhibitions, which were becoming increasingly important, as they supported and promoted local painters and upcoming Parisian artists. It was at this time Dupré became a key figure in theBarbizongroup. He developed close ties with otherBarbizonpainters and began to attain relations with independent art dealers.

When Dupré showed seven paintings at the 1839 Salon, it was to be his last exhibition until 1852. This was due to the insensitivity of the jury and the lack of understanding of many of his colleagues. Along with otherBarbizonartists, such as Camille Corot and Theodore Rousseau, Dupré organized a petition to change the jury system. Primarily, this notion was not well received, but when Dupré became a member of the commission, which was formed to reorganize the salon, modifications to the jury system were made.

In 1849, Dupré received a Leigon d’Honneur and continued to achieve financial success. At this time he reentered the Salon as an exhibitor. In 1867 he exhibited at the Exposition Universelle and in 1883 at the Exposition Centennale. By the 1870’s Dupré was considered one of the leading landscape painters of the time. He continued to paint until his death in 1889.

•Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
•Art Institute of Chicago
•Brigham Young University Fine Arts Collection, Provo, UT
•Cardiff Museum of Art
•Cincinnati Museum of Art Museum of Art, Geneva
•Grobet-Labadie Museum, Marseille, France
•Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Hague
•Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
•Hermitage Museum, Leningrad
•Jean-Pierre Pescatore Museum, Luxembourg
•John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia
•La Salle Study Collection of Art, Philadelphia
•Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria
•Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
•Los Angeles County Museum of Art
•Louvre, Paris.
•Melton Park Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
•Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
•Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
•Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
•Museé Seulecq, l’Isle-Adam, France
•Museum of Art, Boston
•Museum of Art, Glasgow
•Museum of Art, London
•Museum of fine Art, Saintes, France
•Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
•National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
•National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
•National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
•Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
•Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI
•Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
•Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery
•Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Baltimore Museum of Art
•Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
•Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN
•Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
•State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Frick Collection, NY
•Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
•Stockholm Museum
•Taft Museum, Cincinnati
•The Hague Museum
•Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
•University of Wyoming Art Museum, WY
•Washington University Gallery, St. Louis, MO
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