Haymaking
by DUPRÉ, Julien, Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm
Julien Dupr� is considered to be one of the leading exponents of the second generation of Realist painters; a group that also includes Leon Lhermitte, Jules Bastien-Lepage and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. Like Jean-Fran�ois Millet and Jules Breton, before them, these artists devoted their artistic careers to the depiction of the toils of the French peasant - often seen hard at work in the fields.