Jules Dupré (1811 - 1889) - Cattle grazing under two free-standing trees

Cattle grazing under two free-standing trees

25,4 x 31,9 in

Signed lower right: J Dupré. On the reverse on stretcher a exhibition label with no. 1, inscription with number 25001L, as well as owner's note, numbering 2736 and stamp.

Dupré was trained as a porcelain painter from the age of 12 in his father's porcelain manufactory and also attended the studio of the landscape and animal painter Jean-Michel Diebolt. Around 1825, he met Narcisse Diaz in Paris, who also worked there as a porcelain painter. Dupré belonged from 1827 to the circle of artists of Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Eugène Delacroix and Richard Parkes Bonington in Paris. He travelled around Paris and Berry with Constant Troyon in 1833. He met his roommate Théodore Rousseau, who took him to the Forest of Fontainebleau and who was excluded from the Paris Salon, which Jules Dupré - perhaps out of solidarity - also did not attend, having exhibited successfully in 1831 and 1836. In 1850, he established his main residence in L'Isle-Adam and spent summers in Cayeux-sur-Mer, where he was visited in 1868 by Jean-Francois Millet, whose brushwork seems to reflect some of our painting.