Jules Bastien-Lepage

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Jules Bastien-Lepage (1 November 1848 – 10 December 1884) was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of Naturalism, an artistic style that grew out of the Realist movement and developed in France alongside Impressionism. Émile Zola described Bastien-Lepage's work as "impressionism corrected, sweetened and adapted to the taste of the crowd." His en plein air depictions of peasant life in the countryside were highly influential on many international artists, including George Clausen in England and Tom Roberts in Australia. He was also known for his history paintings, among the most famous being Joan of Arc, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His younger brother Émile also became a painter, and an architect. His health was poor, and he died at thirty-six.

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