"lepine Stanislas Paris, The Louis Philippe Bridge 1878 Oil On Canvas Signed Catalogue Raisonné"
LEPINE Stanislas ( 1835 / 1892 )
Paris, The Louis Philippe Bridge in 1878.
Oil on canvas signed lower left, located and dated 1878 on the back
32 x 26 cm
Exhibition labels and inventory numbers on the back.
Old Durand-Ruel Collection.
Table listed in the catalogue raisonné of the work painted by Robert and Manuel Schmit under the number 54 page 24.
Stanislas Lépine is the son of Stanislas-Edmond-Louis Lépine, cabinetmaker, aged 20, and Marie-Louise Hérier.
Stanislas Lépine moved to Paris in 1855. He married around 1859 with a childhood friend Marie-Odile-Emilie Dodin, and in 1860 entered the workshop of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, of which he copied some paintings. Mainly a landscape painter, he painted a lot of Paris and the Seine, as well as Normandy.
He meets Fantin-Latour who, more than once, had to help him financially. Unknown in his time, he always stays away from any group life.
Paris, the Pont des Arts, painted between 1878 and 1883, and the View of the Seine and the Trocadero are, in many aspects, representative of the art of Lépine, unconditional painter of Paris and especially of the banks of the Seine. In these landscapes in which the human figure is often practically excluded or reduced to the state of a pictogram, Lépine liked to play with delicate gray tones that were enough for him to accurately note the quality of the light. His palette is thus clearer than that of the painters of the Barbizon school and we often consider Lépine, with Eugène Boudin, Adolphe-Félix Cals and Johan Barthold Jongkind, as a precursor of the Impressionists, with whom he exhibited in 1874 at the First exhibition of Impressionist painters.
Stanislas Lépine exhibited at the Salon from 1859 to 1880, and at the Salon des artistes français from 1881 to 1889.
He settled in Montmartre from his youth and spent his whole life there. He lived successively at No. 20 chaussée de Clignancourt (rue de Clignancourt today), then rue des Rosiers, rue de la Fontenelle (1870-1887) (these two streets have formed the rue du Chevalier-de-La-Barre since 1907) and finally at No. 18 rue de Clignancourt. He paints, as Coriolis, alias Georges Lecomte, says, "not the noisy Montmartre of the outer boulevards, but the isolated, withdrawn courtyards, the old walls, the alleys with gardens and lanterns, with rare passers-by ...". Stanislas Lépine is one of those who come to Montmartre to look for the freshness of the small provincial village that still lives to the rhythm of the seasons, the milking of goats and cows, where vegetables and flowers are picked in the garden and not bought at the merchant's stall. The fiacres and the ticks are not yet climbing the Hill. In his paintings, the streets breathe calm and the sweetness of life. He painted the rue Saint Vincent, the rue Cortot, the rue des Saules, the rue de l'Abreuvoir.
Count Armand Doria takes him under his protection, as well as Adolphe-Félix Cals, by welcoming them to his castle of Orrouy.
He died on September 28, 1892 in his Parisian apartment and his funeral took place at the Saint-Pierre church in Montmartre.
Works in public collections :
In Canada
Quebec City, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec: The Seine in Bercy, The Time of the harvest.
In the United States :
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago: View of my studio under the snow.
In France :
Aix-les-Bains, Faure Museum: Sailing ship in Rouen, The Pont des Arts, The Pont Neuf, the old Carrousel bridge.
Paris, Orsay Museum: Marie Bridge, Montmartre, Saint-Vincent Street.
Reims, museum of fine arts: The port of Rouen.
Toulouse, Bemberg Foundation: Paris, the Pont des Arts, View of the Seine and the Trocadero - The Grenelle bridge
Tours, museum of fine arts: Caen, customs.
In the United Kingdom
London, Tate Gallery.
In Ireland
Dublin, National Gallery Of Ireland: Rue du Mont-Cenis, Montmartre.
In Russia
St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum: Landscape with a bridge
In Germany
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle: The Saint-Denis Canal.
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