Xavier Leprince

Xavier Leprince (August 28, 1799 – December 26, 1826) was a French painter, drawer and engraver. He painted agrarian scenes of labourers and cattle in rural France. He exhibited at the Salon and his paintings were owned by Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry. His work is in the collections of many museums in France and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Early life

Xavier Leprince was born on August 28, 1799.[1] His father, Anne Pierre Leprince, was a painter and a lithographer.[2] His brothers, Robert Leopold Leprince and Gustave Leprince, were both painters.[2]

La moisson (1822) by Leprince, owned by the Duchess of Berry.

Career

Leprince painted the streets of Paris and the landscapes of rural France.[2] He also did paintings depicting the existence of labourers and cattle in rural France. For example, his 1822 painting La moisson showed labourers harvesting a field.[2] His 1823 painting, Embarquement des bestiaux [sous robe rouge] sur le Passager dans le port de Honfleur, became emblematic of cattle paintings of the era.[3]

Leprince exhibited at the Salon from 1819 onwards.[2] Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry owned some of his paintings.[2]

Death and legacy

Leprince died on December 26, 1826.[1]

His works are exhibited at the Louvre and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Musée départemental de l'Oise in Beauvais, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseille, the Musée Thomas-Henry in Cherbourg-Octeville, the Musée Magnin in Dijon, the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Pithiviers, the Musée des beaux-arts in Chambéry, the Musée Crozatier in Le Puy-en-Velay, the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Narbonne, the Château de Pau, and the Château de Gisors.[4] Moreover, two of his paintings are exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bolton, Roy; Strachan, Edward (2008). Russia & Europe in the Nineteenth Century. London: Sphinx Fine Art. pp. 53–54. OCLC 527702610.
  3. ↑ Reynaud, Florian (2008). "Les bêtes à cornes et l'art pictural: Une étude iconographique pour servir l’Histoire". Histoire & Sociétés Rurales. 30 (2): 31–66. Retrieved February 28, 2017 – via Cairn.info. (Registration required (help)).
  4. ↑ "LEPRINCE Auguste Xavier". French Ministry of Culture. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ "A Shepherd and a Rider on a Country Lane". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Man in Oriental Costume in the Artist's Studio". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
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