His final two years, painting the rural poor in France, and street children in London, in increasingly documentary form. Then his final works before an untimely death.
Bastien-Lepage
Biography and paintings of the lead Naturalist, from his 2 failed attempts to win the Prix de Rome, switching to depicting the rural poor, and growing success at the Salon.
How gold leaf is applied, burnished and patterned using punches to create a jewelled surface. Seen in the Wilton Diptych, and revived by Gustav Klimt at the end of the 19th century.
Leader’s Worcester, Constable’s several paintings of Salisbury, Canaletto’s Saint Paul’s in London, a Thanksgiving at St Paul’s, Bastien-Lepage and Le Sidaner.
As a sign of those in domestic service, and the poor when working on the land, worn by those in the kitchen, even the men, and protecting their bodies when at work.
A spectrum of purposes and styles, inspired by Émile Zola’s experimental approach to novels, documenting ordinary people with objectivity, in a neutral realism.
The Nativity, Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi, painted by Bastien-Lepage, Murillo, Hieronymus Bosch, Edward Burne-Jones, and others.
Paintings starting with JMW Turner in 1844, through Monet in 1871, Winslow Homer, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Tom Roberts, Pissarro, and Childe Hassam.
By 1880, an artist’s colony was forming in this village on the southern edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, and attracted painters from all over the world.
From dice shooters in a rough tavern, through Bastien-Lepage’s Little Chimneysweep, to poverty in Catania, and destitution in Paris.
The Eclectic Light Company 