La glaneuse
The solitary figure of a woman standing in a meadow in this painting differs slightly from other canvases with similar images in that there are no background features such as livestock, haystacks or distant buildings. She grasps a hayfork, but there is no hay field visible nearby, nor are there any other indications of either…
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Le repos
Harvesters
A Haymaker
Femme versant à boire
Le ballon
Dupré’s large Salon painting, The Balloon (Le ballon), takes the subject of hot air balloon flight as the focal point of his narrative. Although not a typical theme in French painting, the subject was nevertheless popular in the nineteenth century. France was home to the inventors of the hot air balloon, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810) and…
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Le troupeau d’oies
Children Feeding Geese is listed as Le troupe d’oies (A Flock of Geese) in Dupré’s account book (no. #32) in 1881. When he sold it to Michel Knoedler that same year, the art dealer listed it as Gardeuse d’oies (Goose Girl) in his stock book.¹ As the painting made its way to the United States,…
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The windmill in the background of this scene indicates that it was painted near the Laugée family estate in Nauroy. One of Georges Laugée’s photographs depicts this locale clearly. (fig. 1) The windmill in the background of the photograph has been directly transported into Dupré’s painting of a harvester with her laden wheelbarrow.
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