Auguste-Louis Lepère
{{short description|French painter}}
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File:Auguste Lepère self-portrait.jpg
Louis-Auguste LepèreSaunier, Charles (1931). Auguste Lepère: Peintre et Graveur, Décorateur de Livres. Paris: Maurice Le Garrec, p. 15. According to French custom, his formal name was Louis-Auguste Lepère, but he signed his works "LA Lepère," "A. Lepère," or, by his informal name, "Auguste Lepère." In the 1870s - 1880s, when he was wood engraving for Le Monde Illustré, he would only use "LA" if there were multiple engravers on the same print. (30 November 1849 – 20 November 1918) was a French painter and etcher. Lepère is also considered a leader in the creative revival of wood engraving in Europe.
Biography
Louis-Auguste Lepère was born in Paris. At the age of thirteen, he began his artistic education in the Paris studio of the engraver Joseph Burn-Smeeton. By the mid-1870s, Lepère had emerged as one of the most renowned printmakers of his time.{{Cite web |title=Auguste Louis Lepere Les Trophees |url=http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/lepere_auguste_louis_letrophees.htm |accessdate=2012-05-29}}
Lepère focused mostly on daily life in both his etchings and wood engravings. He is now remembered for his innovations, such as the use of colored paper and the combining of etching and wood engraving on the same print.
The last years of Lepère's life were given almost exclusively to wood engraving. In total, his graphic oeuvre consists of over 150 etchings, over 200 wood engravings and 14 lithographs. He died at Domme, aged 68.
Collections
Lepère's work is held in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{Cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/381867 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=www.metmuseum.org |title=Auguste-Louis Lepère | Convalescent, Mme Lepère |date=1892 }} the Art Institute of Chicago,{{Cite web |title=Louis Auguste Lepère |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/15155/louis-auguste-lepere |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=artic.edu}} the Allen Memorial Art Museum,{{Cite web |title=Works – Auguste Louis Lepère – Artists – Art Collection |url=https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/people/4142/auguste-louis-lepere/objects |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=allenartcollection.oberlin.edu}} the Smithsonian American Art Museum,{{Cite web |title=Landscape {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/landscape-14552 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=americanart.si.edu |language=en-US}} the Portland Art Museum,{{Cite web |title=Auguste Lepère |url=http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=5414;type=701 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=portlandartmuseum.us}} the Birmingham Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=La Forêt de Fontainebleau: Les brûleurs de fougères (Fontainebleau Forest: Fern Burners) {{!}} Birmingham Museum of Art |url=https://www.artsbma.org/collection/la-foret-de-fontainebleau-les-bruleurs-de-fougeres-fontainebleau-forest-fern-burners/ |access-date=2021-06-09 |language=en-US}} the Brooklyn Museum,{{Cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/103827 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}} the University of Michigan Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=Exchange: Old Houses, Amiens |url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/19349/view |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}} the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,{{Cite web |date=2015-05-08 |title=A la Foire de Saint-Jean-de-Monts – Auguste Louis Lepère |url=https://art.famsf.org/auguste-louis-lep%C3%A8re/la-foire-de-saint-jean-de-monts-1971171020 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=FAMSF Search the Collections |language=en}} the Dallas Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=Landscape – DMA Collection Online |url=https://www.dma.org/object/artwork/5327158/ |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=www.dma.org |language=en}} the Lowe Art Museum,{{Cite web |title=Works – Auguste-Louis Lepère – People Search – eMuseum {{!}} University of Miami |url=https://emuseum1.as.miami.edu/people/1018/augustelouis-lepere/objects |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=emuseum1.as.miami.edu}} the Blanton Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=Blanton Museum of Art – Le Christ au Matin des Rameaux [Christ on Palm Sunday] |url=https://collection.blantonmuseum.org/objects-1/info?query=keywordPath%20=%20%22D%22%20and%20Disp_Maker_1%20=%20%22Auguste%20Louis%20Lep%C3%A8re%22&sort=0 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=collection.blantonmuseum.org}} the Philadelphia Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=Paris under the snow, view from the top of St. Gervais |url=https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/246526 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=philamuseum.org |language=en}} the Artizon Museum,{{Cite web |title=Collection Highlights |url=http://www.artizon.museum/en/collection/art/23412 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=Artizon Museum |language=en}} the Des Moines Art Center,{{Cite web |title=Works – Auguste Lepère – Artists & Creators – Des Moines Art Center |url=https://emuseum.desmoinesartcenter.org/people/41799/auguste-lepere;jsessionid=5F4EBBBB2E501936A30ABC20A432F452/objects |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=emuseum.desmoinesartcenter.org}} the Detroit Institute of Arts,{{Cite web |title=L'abreuvoir du Pont Marie |url=https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/labreuvoir-du-pont-marie-52218 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=www.dia.org |language=en}} the Indianapolis Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=Provins |url=http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/73021/ |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection |language=en}} and the Clark Art Institute.{{Cite web |title=The Centaur |url=https://www.clarkart.edu/artpiece/detail/the-centaur |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=www.clarkart.edu}}
Works
File:(Albi) Autour du brasero (vue de Paris) 1892 - Auguste Lepère.jpg|Autour du brasero (1892), pastel on cardboard
File:Laundresses (Blanchisseuses) (How Quickly Youth Fades! - Jeunesse passe vite vertu!) MET DP834391.jpg|Laundresses (Blanchisseuses) - Soft-ground etching and aquatint; printed in three colors (1893)
File:Jeu des grâces - 1900.jpg|Jeu des grâces dans la rue, illustration de Paysages et coins de rues de Jean Richepin
File:Façade of Rouen Cathedral by Auguste Lepère.jpg|View of thefaçade of Rouen Cathedral, seen from the right, wood engraving- British Museum
File:Auguste Louis Lepère - The Watering Place at Marie Bridge - 2007.255 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg|The Watering Place at Marie Bridge (1902)
File:Auguste Louis Lepère - The Printer - 1953.536 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|The printer- estampe: Woodcut with hand coloring
File:Auguste Louis Lepère - Storm on the Island of Yeu - 1925.435 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|Storm on the Island of Yeu - Watercolor and gouache over black crayon. (1916)
References
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External links
- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/field/subjec/searchterm/Lep%C3%A8re,%20Auguste,%201849-1918/mode/exact Auguste-Louis Lepère exhibition catalogs]
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