Jules Dupre (attributed To) - Animated Landscape

Jules DUPRE (Attributed to) Nantes, 1811 – L'Isle-Adam, 1889 Oil on wood panel 16.2 x 32.5 cm As early as 1833, Jules Dupré was noted at the Salon for his style. "His landscape, with a hedge in the middle, although imbued with the memory of Karle [sic] Dujardin, displays such a precise touch in the foliage, such a rich and powerful way of modelling the terrain, such a happy arrangement of light, that one remains uncertain whether one should not abandon oneself without restriction to the hope that this remarkable beginning gives rise to" (Charles Lenormant, critic). One naturally thinks of an influence from the Flemish and Dutch masters. In the 1840s, he met the great landscape painter and nature lover Théodore Rousseau and they worked together outdoors and in a shared studio at L'Isle Adam. Our painting is characteristically marked by the Nordic landscape painters in the composition and the realistic description of nature that Juels Dupré was able to deepen alongside Théodore Rousseau. But there is also an influence of Gustave Courbet with a painting very much in the material and a true light that could be here that of the Ile-de-France.