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Joan of Arc. Jules Bastien-Lepage.

Detail from Le Père Jacques (Woodgatherer), 1881, by Jules Bastien-Lepage.

A young boy looks directly out of the painting clad in raggedy clothes and large unlaced boots. His relaxed air fits the title which is an abbreviation of the French slang: 'Il n'y a pas meche' meaning 'There's nothing doing'. The whip he holds and the horn slung on his back suggest that he was a barge boy who would have controlled the horses pulling the barge and alerted the lockmasters of its imminent arrival. The painting was made for the London art dealers Arthur Tooth and Sons and was…

Joan Of Arc-Jules Bastien-Lepage

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Portrait of my Grandfather, 1874 Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) was one of the founders of Naturalism. A criti...

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Pauvre fauvette. 1882. Olieverf op doek

‘Weary’ was created in 1881 by Jules Bastien-Lepage in Realism style. Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) French Realist painter. Oil on canvas 132.10 x 89.50 cm Scottish National Gallery www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/b/artist... _____ A young boy looks directly out of the painting clad in raggedy clothes and large unlaced boots. His relaxed air fits the title which is an abbreviation of the French slang: 'Il n'y a pas meche' meaning 'There's nothing doing'. The whip he holds and the horn slung on his back suggest that he was a barge boy who…

This painting is all about movement. The woman turns towards the men in the vineyard as if they are calling to each other. Your gaze automatically follows hers: behind the hill, a storm is looming.Jules Bastien-Lepage began painting rural subjects in 1876. He had grown up in a farming village and his paintings showed the hard but honest life of country people. This made him an important model for Van Gogh.