Xavier Leprince

Auguste-Xavier Leprince (August 28, 1799 – December 26, 1826) was a French painter, drawer and engraver, best known for his paintings of agrarian scenes.

Embarquement des bestiaux (The Embarkment of Cattle, 1823)
La moisson (The Harvest, 1822), owned by the Duchess of Berry.

Biography

Xavier Leprince was born in Paris.[1] His father, Anne Pierre Leprince, was a painter and a lithographer.[2] His brothers, Léopold Leprince and Gustave Leprince (1810-1837), were also painters.[2]

He painted Parisian street scenes and landscapes.[2] He also did paintings depicting the farming life in rural France. For example, his 1822 painting La moisson showed labourers harvesting a field.[2] His 1823 painting, Embarquement des bestiaux sur le Passager dans le port de Honfleur (Embarkation of Cattle on the Passager at the Port of Honfleur), became emblematic of the cattle paintings of that era.[3] It once belonged to Charles X and is currently in the Louvre

He exhibited at the Salon from 1819 onwards.[2] Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry owned some of his paintings.[2] The landscape and marine painter Eugène Lepoittevin was one of his students.

He died in Nice.[1]

Museum holdings

In France, his works are in the collections of 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 de Narbonne, the Château de Pau, and the Château de Gisors.[4]

In the United States, two of his paintings are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[5][6] The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison owns Leprince's The Artist's Studio, which includes a self-portrait along with many other figures in Leprince's atelier.[7]

References
  1. "Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  2. Bolton, Roy; Strachan, Edward (2008). Russia & Europe in the Nineteenth Century. London: Sphinx Fine Art. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9781907200021. 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. doi:10.3917/hsr.030.0031. Retrieved February 28, 2017 – via Cairn.info.
  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.
  7. "The Artist's Studio". www.chazen.wisc.edu. Retrieved January 3, 2021.

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