~FIGURE 8 Jules Bastien-Lepage, Sketch for Haymaking (Étude pour...

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Description: Sketch for Haymaking (Étude pour Les Foins)

TitleSketch for Haymaking (Étude pour Les Foins)

Creator nameBastien-Lepage, Jules

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions13 × 16 in. (33 × 41 cm)

LocationMuseum Mesdag, The Hague, Netherlands

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsNaturalism in artArt, French--19th centuryArtists' preparatory studiesAgricultural laborers in artNaps (Sleep) in art

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1. 1878 / The Motionless Look of a Painting

Marnin Young

Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time

Jules Bastien-Lepage first showed Haymaking (Les Foins) at the Paris Salon of 1878 (fig. 5).See William Steven Feldman, “The Life and Work of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884),” (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1973), 89–106; Marie-Madeleine Aubrun, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1848–1884: Catalogue raisonné de...

Author

Marnin Young

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.15-51

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00100.004

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, French--19th centuryLandscape painting, French--19th centuryBastien-Lepage, Jules, 1848-1884Realism in art--France--19th centuryArt criticism--France--History--19th centuryZola, Émile, 1840-1902Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875Women agricultural laborers--France--History--19th centuryCourbet, Gustave, 1819–1877Naturalism in art--France--19th centuryArt and society--France--History--19th century

V. The Sketch in Practice

Albert Boime

The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century

~While the critics theorized about the sketch, the Academy taught, in fact, the elaborate sketching procedures. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Academy’s technical sketch training provided the independents with a basis for their personal experiments. Seen in this context, an examination of the Academy’s sketch practice may very...

Author

Albert Boime

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.102-121

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00116.008

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Chapter subject tags:Oil sketches, French--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryAcademic art, French--19th centuryDelaroche, Paul, 1797-1856Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867Bouguereau, William Adolphe, 1825-1905Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863

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