LEPINE Stanislas Paris, The Louis Philippe bridge in 1878 Oil on canvas signed catalog raisonné N°54

LEPINE Stanislas (1835 / 1892)
Paris, The Louis Philippe Bridge in 1878.
Oil on canvas signed lower left, located and dated 1878 on the back
32x26 cm
Exhibition labels and inventory numbers on the back.
Former Durand-Ruel Collection.
Painting listed in the catalog raisonné of the work painted by Robert and Manuel Schmit under number 54 page 24.
Stanislas Lépine is the 20-year-old son of Stanislas-Edmond-Louis Lépine, cabinetmaker, and Marie-Louise Hérier.
Stanislas Lépine moved to Paris in 1855. He married around 1859 with a childhood friend Marie-Odile-Emilie Dodin, and in 1860 entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, from whom he copied certain paintings. Mainly a landscape painter, he painted a lot of Paris and the Seine, as well as Normandy.
He meets Fantin-Latour who, more than once, had to help him financially. Unknown in his time, he always stays away from any group life.
Paris, the Pont des Arts, painted between 1878 and 1883, and The View of the Seine and the Trocadéro are, in many ways, representative of the art of Lépine, an unconditional painter of Paris and especially of the banks of the Seine. In these landscapes in which the human figure is often practically excluded or reduced to the status of a pictogram, Lépine liked to play with delicate gray tones which were enough for him to accurately note the quality of the light. His palette is thus clearer than that of the painters of the Barbizon school and Lépine, with Eugène Boudin, Adolphe-Félix Cals and Johan Barthold Jongkind, is often considered a precursor of the Impressionists, with whom he exhibited in 1874 at the First exhibition of impressionist painters.
Stanislas Lépine exhibited at the Salon from 1859 to 1880, and at the Salon des artistes français from 1881 to 1889.
He moved to Montmartre in his youth and spent his whole life there. He lived successively at no. 20 chaussée de Clignancourt (rue de Clignancourt today), then rue des Rosiers, rue de la Fontenelle (1870-1887) (these two streets have since 1907 formed rue du Chevalier-de-La-Barre) and finally at no. 18 rue de Clignancourt. He paints, as Coriolis, alias Georges Lecomte, says “not the noisy Montmartre of the outer boulevards, but the isolated, secluded courtyards, the old walls, the alleys with gardens and lanterns, with rare passers-by…”. Stanislas Lépine is one of those who come to Montmartre to seek the freshness of the small provincial village which still lives to the rhythm of the seasons, of the milking of goats and cows, where vegetables and flowers are picked in the garden and cannot be bought. at the merchant's stall. Cabs and coaches are not yet going up the Butte. In his paintings, the streets breathe calm and the sweetness of life. He painted rue Saint Vincent, rue Cortot, rue des Saules, rue de l'Abreuvoir.
Count Armand Doria takes him under his protection, as well as Adolphe-Félix Cals, by welcoming them to his castle of Orrouy.
He died on September 28, 1892 in his Paris apartment and his funeral took place at the Saint-Pierre church in Montmartre.
Works in public collections:
In Canada
Quebec, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec: The Seine at Bercy, Harvest Time.
In the USA :
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago: View of my studio under the snow.
In France :
Aix-les-Bains, Faure Museum: Sailboat in Rouen, Pont des Arts, Pont Neuf, former Carrousel bridge.
Paris, Musée d'Orsay: Pont Marie, Montmartre, Rue Saint-Vincent.
Reims, museum of fine arts: The port of Rouen.
Toulouse, Fondation Bemberg: Paris, the Pont des Arts, View of the Seine and the Trocadero – The Pont de Grenelle
Tours, museum of fine arts: Caen, customs.
The UK
London, Tate Gallery.
In Irish
Dublin, National Gallery Of Ireland: Rue du Mont-Cenis, Montmartre.
In Russia
Saint-Petersburg, Hermitage Museum: Landscape with a bridge
In Germany
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle: The Canal Saint-Denis.
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