Stanislas Lépine, French, 1835-1892
Title: Rue Mont-Cenis, Montmartre
Date: c.1872
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
56 x 38 cm
Signed: lower left: S. Lepine
Credit Line: Presented, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, 1950
Object Number: NGI.4251
Exhibition HistoryFrench 19th and 20th Century Paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland: Corot to Picasso, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, 5 September - 17 September 1996; Daimaru Museum, Kyoto, 10 October - 22 October 1996; Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, 26 October - 2 December 1996; Daimaru Museum, Umeda,Osaka, 22 January - 9 February 1997; Aomori Municpal Gallery of Art, Aomori, 2 April - 20 April 1997
Chester Beatty: The Paintings, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 7 September 2012 - 31 August 2013
Chester Beatty: The Paintings, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 7 September 2012 - 31 August 2013
Label TextLépine painted views of Paris in muted grey tones. From 1868-1872, he depicted the steep Rue Mont-Cenis on numerous occasions, both by day and by night. Here, he shows working-class people going about their daily business. As in many of his paintings, he gives prominence to the figures of a woman and child. Lépine exhibited at the first Impressionist Exhibition in 1874. While he was not an Impressionist, he did share the Impressionists’ interest in portraying scenes from contemporary life.