Femme portant à manger
Set in the area around Nauroy, with its windmill visible in the distance, Dupré depicts a young woman carrying lunch to the workers in the field. With a loaf of bread in one hand and a pail of soup in the other, she nonetheless seems lost in thought as she strides through the newly threshed…
Read MoreA Break from the Harvest
Harvesters seated on hay stacks enjoying their meal is a recurring theme. The models who posed for these images reappear consistently throughout Dupré’s compositions of this subject. Presumably they were either members of the Dupré-Laugée extended family or local people who were willing to pose for the painter. Here, the standing man with the mustache…
Read MoreLa 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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