Stanislas Lépine

Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine ( born October 23, 1835 in Caen, † September 28, 1892 in Paris) was a French landscape painter.

Life

Stanislas Lépine was born in Normandy. In 1859, he met Camille Corot and became his student. The collector Hazard promoted him in these years, but Lépine was hardly noticed by the public. In contrast, he found great appreciation for his fellow artists. Although he felt no obligation style, yet he took in 1874 at the first Impressionist exhibition at Nadar part. He died destitute in Paris in 1892. His friends had to organize a collection in order to apply at all the funeral costs. In December 1892 a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Galerie Durand -Ruel.

Importance

Lépine artistic role models are Camille Corot and Johan Barthold Jongkind. His work moves between the Vorimpressionismus and impressionism and is mainly composed of landscape paintings, which are executed with great love for nature, a sense of light and a narrow color palette. One focus of his motifs form the Seine and representations of waters, river banks etc. Lépine pictures are always quiet and unspectacular and are characterized by taste and quality.

Works

• Bridge in a French city (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), circa 1870, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

• Landscape painter
• French Painter
• Born in 1835
• Died in 1892
• Man