Jules Bastien-Lepage and his art

JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE AS ARTIST, BY GEORGE CLAUSEN, A.R.W.S.; MODERN REALISM IN PAINTING, BY WALTER SICKERT, N.E.A.C.; AND, A STUDY OF MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF, BY MATHILDE BLIND [Illu...

However, he did not consider himself beaten. The following year, at the same time that he was exhibiting his portrait of M. Wallon, he went in again for the Prix de Rome competi...

At that moment all was going well with him. His Mendiant had had a great success at the Salon; his last visit to England had been very prosperous; his head was full of fine proj...

“Yesterday I went to take a bath. I had to go three or four hundred steps through streets full of merchants. In a passage a Jew was selling silks, pearls and corals; in front of...

And whereas with Millet the interest always centres in the subject, in Lepage it centres in the individual. His pictures become portraits. He chooses a good type, and sets himse...

Nothing is more frequently brought home to the student of modern painting than the truth that the work of the _salonnier_, the picture, that is, that is born of the exhibition a...

I was particularly fortunate this year in finding in Marie Bashkirtseff’s studio a picture by Bastien-Lepage, L’Annociation au Bergers, which he painted in 1875 to compete for t...

There is a passage in her Journal where, speaking of the sacrifices which art exacts, she says she has given up more for it than Benvenuto Cellini when he burn his costly furnit...