Description

Jules Dupré (Nantes, 1811 – L’Isle-Adam, 1889)

Jules Dupré : pastures of Limousin (salon of 1835)

Original lithograph after the oil on canvas of the same name.

Proof on wove paper of 1st edition before the word ‘Salon’ in the upper left corner, lithographed by Jean Georges Frey (1798-185.?) and published by the magazine L’artiste.

Jules Dupré (Nantes, 1811 – L’Isle-Adam, 1889), French landscape painter, pioneer like Camille Corot, of the French landscape, and influenced by John Constable. Dupré’s oil on canvas (78.7 × 130.8 cm) is in New York, USA, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

Dimensions of the sheet: H. 200 mm x W. 260 mm – Dimensions of the subject: H. 138 mm x W. 217 mm.