Julien Dupré, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Julien Dupré

French painter

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1851

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Julien Dupré (March 18, 1851 – April, 1910) was a French painter.He was born in Paris on March 18, 1851 to Jean Dupré (a jeweler) and Pauline Bouillié and began his adult life working in a lace shop in anticipation of entering his family's jewelry business.
The war of 1870 and the siege of Paris forced the closure of the shop and Julien began taking evening courses at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and it was through these classes that he gained admission to the École des Beaux-Arts.At l'Ecole he studied with Isidore Pils (1813–1875) and Henri Lehmann (1814–1882).
In the mid-1870s he traveled to Picardy and became a student of the rural genre painter Désiré François Laugée (1823–1896), whose daughter Marie Eléonore Françoise he would marry in 1876; the year he exhibited his first painting at the Paris Salon.In 1892, he was awarded the Legion of Honour.Throughout his career Dupré championed the life of the peasant and continued painting scenes in the areas of Normandy and Brittany.
He exhibited regularly until his death in April, 1910.