Stanislas Lépine

The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are river-landscape and The Seine in Charenton. Work by Stanislas Lépine is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Art Institute of Chicago, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

• Name — Stanislas Lépine • Born — October 3, 1835 • Birthplace — Caen, France • Died — September 28, 1892 • Place of death — Paris, France • Known for — Painting

Lépine was born in Caen. An important influence in his artistic formation was Corot, whom he met in Normandy in 1859, becoming his student the following year. Lépine's favorite subject was the Seine, which he was to paint in all its aspects for the rest of his life. He is considered a harbinger of the future, heralding the evolution of traditional plein-air landscape painting into Impressionism and modern art. Lépine was part of a movement of artists who painted outside, developing a new visual vocabulary that captured the changeability of nature, an “impression” of a landscape replacing a literal reproduction of it. He participated in the First Impressionist Exhibition, held at Nadar's in 1874, although he is generally not considered an Impressionist. His paintings are placid in mood and are usually small in scale. Lépine was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 for his painting Pont de l'Estacade. He died suddenly in Paris in 1892.

The authorities additionally record the headings Stanislas-Victor-Édouard Lepine, Stanislas-Victor-Edouard Lépine, Stanislas Victor Edouard Lepine, Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine and Stanislas-Victor-Edmond Lepine. His recorded language was French.