The novelist André Theuriet recalls his friend Jules Bastien-Lepage from his boyhood at Damvillers on the Meuse to his early death, describing the peasant scenes and portraits that made him famous. George Clausen writes on him as an artist, Walter Sickert on modern realism in painting, and Mathilde Blind contributes a study of his young admirer Marie Bashkirtseff.
A valuable small book for anyone interested in naturalist painting and its influence on British artists. Download the free EPUB.