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Jules Dupré · 1835
Jules Dupré: 1811–1889
Other names (10)
Dupre, Dupré J., Dupre Jules, I. Dupré, J. Dupré, Juels Dupré, jul. dupre, Jules Dupre, Jules-L. Dupré, Jules-Louis Dupre
Biography
Jules Louis Dupré (French pronunciation: [ʒyl lwi dypʁe]; April 5, 1811 – October 6, 1889) was a French painter, one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters.
Dupré was born in Nantes. He exhibited first at the Salon in 1831, and three years later was awarded a second-class medal. In the same year, he came to England where he was impressed by the genius of Constable. From then on, he learned how to express movement in nature; and the districts around Southampton and Plymouth, with their wide, unbroken expanses of water, sky and ground, gave him good opportunities for studying the tempestuous motion of storm-clouds and the movement of foliage driven by the wind. He was named an Officer of the French Légion d'honneur in 1848.
Dupré's colour is sonorous and resonant. He showed preference for using dramatic sunset effects and stormy skies and seas as the subjects of his paintings. Late in life he changed his style and gained appreciably in largeness of handling and arrived at greater simplicity in his colour harmonies. Among his chief works are the Morning and Evening at the Louvre, and the early Crossing the Bridge in the Wallace Collection.
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Influenced by
- John Constableeditorial inference
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- Auguste Raffeteditorial inference
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Later influence
- Victor Papeleueditorial inference
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- Dupre Léon Victoreditorial inference
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- Robert Charles Gustave Laurens Molseditorial inference
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- Dupre Léon Victoreditorial inference
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- Alexander Helwig Wyanteditorial inference
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- Henry Mark Anthonyeditorial inference
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The biography identifies Jules Dupré as an influence on Anthony during his Fontainebleau period. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
- Louis Valtateditorial inference
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The biography identifies Jules Dupré as a teacher of Louis Valtat. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending. Teaching does not by itself establish artistic influence.
Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Jules Dupré. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Musée du Louvre13 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art11 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art7 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago5 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art5 recorded works
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille3 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts3 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art3 recorded works
- Walters Art Museum3 recorded works
- MUDO - musée de l'Oise — Beauvais2 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly2 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen2 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum2 recorded works
- Hermitage Museum1 recorded work
- Les Pêcheries, musée de Fécamp — Fécamp1 recorded work
- musée d'art et d'histoire — Meudon1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Rennes1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Châlons-en-Champagne1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Soissons1 recorded work
- musée national Magnin — Dijon1 recorded work
- Nationalmuseum1 recorded work
- Tatham Art Gallery1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Rijksmuseum: independently verified selected paintings
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
