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Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt (1879)
By Jules Bastien-Lepage.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA.

L'Amour au Village (Rural Love) (1882)
By Jules Bastien-Lepage.
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts,
Moscow, Russia.

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Biography

Jules Bastien-Lepage was a French painter noted for his sentimental genre painting of rural life.

Despite growing up during the era of Impressionism, his style of plein air painting was closer to the naturalism of the Realism art movement than the light-oriented art of Claude Monet (1840-1926). Ironically, a number of Impressionist painters - in Scotland, Holland, America and Australia - preferred to adopt his style of naturalist realist painting rather than Impressionism pro