Jules Dupré Landscape of Isle Adam oil on canvas circa 1860-1870
We are honored to show you an important work of Jules Dupré, a world famous French painter, exhibited in the most prestigious museums, the Louvre, Orsay, Frick Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Arts ...
This magnificent painting was acquired by the famous collector and benefactor Henri Rouart. After Henri Rouart's death, his children sold his immense collection on December 9th to 11th, 1912 at the Galerie Manzi-Joyant. Our painting, registered as number 197, was acquired by the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune.
Our painting is mentioned in the catalog "Raisonné" of Jules Dupré by Mrs. Aubrun, under the number 116 on page 82. It is one of the major works of Jules Dupré, and to illustrate this point it has been kept in the collections of prestigious collectors and Galleries.
An oil painting on its original canvas signed at the lower left, representing a Landscape of L'isle Adam. The eye is immediately focused on the quality and technique used for the representation of the sky, looking carefully we can understand what Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother about the admiration he had for Jules Dupré. The attention then turns to the trees, bewitching. Finally, the light that emanates from the painting attracts you and plunges you into the heart of the scene.
The Beethoven of the landscape: The quiet simplicity of Jules Dupré's rural paintings conceals a certain lyricism. This is not surprising when one knows that the painter, as a passionate music lover, never tired of listening to his mother and his first companion, both musicians, play Mozart or Beethoven. Transposed on the canvas, this musicality is expressed in a symphony of colors orchestrated by the light.
Trees or Sovereign Nature: The tree imposes itself as the main motif of the painting, dominating the composition with its unwavering verticality.
Measurements with frame: H 25.59 In. - W 29.13 In.
Dimensions avec cadre : Hauteur 65 cm – Longueur 74 cm.
The painting is in a perfect state of conservation, it does not present any accident, nor repainted.
We have decided not to engage any cleaning, this painting from our point of view is intended to enter the collection of an enthusiast or a Museum, it will be up to them to engage the level of cleaning and varnish finish they desire. Some Impressionist painters or those of the Barbizon School have indicated their willingness not to varnish their paintings.
We present it in a hand-carved gilt wood frame of the period, which seems to be its original frame.
Biographies:
Jules Dupré: 1811-1889.
Il He was born in Nantes on April 5th 1811 and died in L'Isle Adam on October 6th 1889.
French landscape painter, pioneer of the French landscape, he left his studio to paint outdoors around Paris from 1830, we can acknowledge him to be one of the pioneers of Impressionism.
To say that Jules Dupré is a painter of nature is a gentle understatement. Under the artist's brush, there is nothing but woods, fields and clearings, peaceful pastures and bodies of water reflecting a versatile sky. Nothing in his work contradicts his penchant for the landscape, from the first ceramic decorations of his youth to the rural views of L'Isle-Adam - a small town on the banks of the Oise where he settled permanently in 1850.
More closely associated with the Barbizon school, he stayed for a long time in the shadow of Théodore Rousseau, with whom he had an exclusive and stormy friendship. However, Jules Dupré remains an unclassifiable artist, who borrows as much from Romanticism as from Naturalism, drawing his primary inspiration from the Dutch masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the English painter John Constable.
A realism of the intimate: If he broke with the tradition of classical landscape painting by dedicating himself to outdoor painting from 1830 onwards, he continued to prefer the long days of work in his studio. This singularity differentiates him from the painters of the forest of Fontainebleau, headed by Théodore Rousseau, and leads him to conceive scenes without precise geographical references, whose titles evoke typical landscapes - edge of wood, pond, path, large oaks - and given times - rest after the harvest, sunset.
Most often confined in a sort of solitary meditation, he freely arranged his canvases, sacrificing to his imagination the primary truth of the scenes depicted, especially from the year 1850 on. The result is interiorized landscapes, which bear the mark of their creator, as if he alone was capable of revealing them to life. "Nature is nothing, man is everything", the painter from L'Isle-Adam liked to theorize, reaffirming the intimate presence of the artist at the heart of all creation.
Jules Dupré is often described as one of the founders of the Barbizon School, along with Rousseau, Millet, Daubigny, Corot...
Jules Dupré was congratulated for the quality and expressiveness of his skies by his contemporaries: Eugene Delacroix, Camille Corot, Van Gogh (even though they never met) as evidenced by the writings of the period.
Henri Rouart: 1833-1912.
In his fifties, Rouart entirely dedicated himself to his passion as a painter.
A former student of Corot and Millet, his art is close to the Impressionists. He participated in exhibitions from 1868 and was very faithful to the Impressionist group's exhibitions, being present at seven of the eight exhibitions from the First Impressionist Painters Exhibition of 1874 at Nadar's.
He became a well-known art collector and benefactor of Delacroix, Courbet, Daumier, Millet, Corot, Dupré, Manet, Berthe Morisot, Toulouse Lautrec, Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes, Pissaro and Degas, among others. Three exhibitions of the Impressionists were held thanks to his financial support and he also helped his friends by buying them many works.
Après sa mort, en décembre 1912, sa fille et ses quatre fils décident de vendre sa fabuleuse collection. La vente rapportera une somme astronomique et marquera le début de l’envol des prix des toiles impressionnistes.
Fairs - Exhibitions:
Jules Dupré expose au Salon dès 1831 avec sept tableaux ; cinq tableaux en 1833 ; quatre tableaux en 1834 et en 1835 ; deux tableaux en 1836. En 1839, il y présente sept toiles, des paysages de l’Indre, de la Corrèze et de Normandie, avant de se désintéresser du Salon pour n’y reparaître qu’en 1852 avec trois tableaux, enfin en 1867 (Exposition Universelle) avec treize tableaux.
Museums:
The exhaustive list of museums that keep works of Jules Dupré in the world would be much too long, we will retain emblematic names:
Le Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Walters Art Museum de Baltimore, Musée des Beaux Arts de Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul Universty Museum of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Bass Museum of Miami Beach, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frick Collection, Menphis Brooks Museum, San Francisco De Young Museum, National Gallery of Art de Washington, Musée National des Beaux Arts de Rio de Janeiro, Ordrupgaard Museum de Copenhague, Statens Museum of Kunst de Copenhague, Musée National d’Art d’Azerbaïdjan à Bakou, National Gallery of Victoria à Melbourne, Musée National des Beaux Arts de Buenos Aires….
