Auguste-Louis Lepère Explained

Louis-Auguste Lepère^[1] (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.^[2]

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,^[3] the Art Institute of Chicago,^[4] the Allen Memorial Art Museum,^[5] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,^[6] the Portland Art Museum,^[7] the Birmingham Museum of Art,^[8] the Brooklyn Museum,^[9] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,^[10] the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,^[11] the Dallas Museum of Art,^[12] the Lowe Art Museum,^[13] the Blanton Museum of Art,^[14] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,^[15] the Artizon Museum,^[16] the Des Moines Art Center,^[17] the Detroit Institute of Arts,^[18] the Indianapolis Museum of Art,^[19] and the Clark Art Institute.^[20]

External links

• Auguste-Louis Lepère exhibition catalogs

Notes and References

1. Saunier, 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.
2. Web site: Auguste Louis Lepere Les Trophees . 2012-05-29.
3. Web site: Auguste-Louis Lepère | Convalescent, Mme Lepère . 2021-06-09 . www.metmuseum.org .
4. Web site: Louis Auguste Lepère . 2021-12-07 . artic.edu.
5. Web site: Works – Auguste Louis Lepère – Artists – Art Collection . 2021-06-09 . allenartcollection.oberlin.edu.
6. Web site: Landscape Smithsonian American Art Museum . 2021-06-09 . americanart.si.edu . en-US.
7. Web site: Auguste Lepère . 2021-06-09 . portlandartmuseum.us.
8. Web site: La Forêt de Fontainebleau: Les brûleurs de fougères (Fontainebleau Forest: Fern Burners) Birmingham Museum of Art . 2021-06-09 . en-US.
9. Web site: Brooklyn Museum . 2021-06-09 . www.brooklynmuseum.org.
10. Web site: Exchange: Old Houses, Amiens . 2021-06-09 . exchange.umma.umich.edu.
11. Web site: 2015-05-08 . A la Foire de Saint-Jean-de-Monts – Auguste Louis Lepère . 2021-06-09 . FAMSF Search the Collections . en.
12. Web site: Landscape – DMA Collection Online . 2021-06-09 . www.dma.org . en.
13. Web site: Works – Auguste-Louis Lepère – People Search – eMuseum University of Miami . 2021-06-09 . emuseum1.as.miami.edu.
14. Web site: Blanton Museum of Art – Le Christ au Matin des Rameaux [Christ on Palm Sunday] ]. 2021-06-09 . collection.blantonmuseum.org.
15. Web site: Paris under the snow, view from the top of St. Gervais . 2021-06-09 . philamuseum.org . en.
16. Web site: Collection Highlights . 2021-06-09 . Artizon Museum . en.
17. Web site: Works – Auguste Lepère – Artists & Creators – Des Moines Art Center . 2021-06-09 . emuseum.desmoinesartcenter.org.
18. Web site: L'abreuvoir du Pont Marie . 2021-06-09 . www.dia.org . en.
19. Web site: Provins . 2021-06-09 . Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection . en.
20. Web site: The Centaur . 2021-06-09 . www.clarkart.edu.