Related Paintings of unknow artist :. | Still life floral, all kinds of reality flowers oil painting 56 | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 300 | Floral, beautiful classical still life of flowers.118 | Sheep 084 | Marriage of Louis of France, | Related Artists: Hugo Briger 1854-1887 Mitchell, Thomas English, 1735-90 Jules Bastien-Lepage French Realist Painter, 1848-1884
French painter. Bastien-Lepage grew up on a farm. Although his earliest efforts in drawing were encouraged, his parents violently objected when he decided to become a professional artist. To mollify them he worked for a time as a postal clerk in Paris while studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1868 he left the civil service and was accepted into Alexandre Cabanel's atelier. During this apprenticeship, Bastien-Lepage won two prizes in drawing, and in 1870 he made his d?but at the Salon with a Portrait of a Young Man (untraced). In the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) he joined a regiment of sharpshooters and was severely wounded in the chest. When he recovered he attempted unsuccessfully to find work as an illustrator.