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Detail from Le Père Jacques (Woodgatherer), 1881, by Jules Bastien-Lepage.

Joan of Arc. Jules Bastien-Lepage.

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Portrait of my Grandfather, 1874 Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) was one of the founders of Naturalism. A criti...

size: 16x16in Giclee Print: Rural Love, 1882 by Jules Bastien-Lepage : Entertainment

Joan of Arc; Jules Bastien-Lepage; 1879; Oil on canvas; Paintings; Gift of Erwin Davis, 1889; (89.21.1); Gardens,Joan of Arc

Last night's documentary on The Glasgow Boys, presented by Muriel Gray, was an interesting survey of the exhibition, Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900, currently on in Glasgow. Gray concentrated on the first of those two decades - rightly, because that was the period in which the group put Glasgow on the art…

The Wood Gatherer is a painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage which was uploaded on November 22nd, 2015. The painting may be purchased as wall art, home decor, apparel, phone cases, greeting cards, and more. All products are produced on-demand and shipped worldwide within 2 - 3 business days.

A young boy looks directly out of the painting clad in raggedy clothes and large unlaced boots. His relaxed air fits the title which is an abbreviation of the French slang: 'Il n'y a pas meche' meaning 'There's nothing doing'. The whip he holds and the horn slung on his back suggest that he was a barge boy who would have controlled the horses pulling the barge and alerted the lockmasters of its imminent arrival. The painting was made for the London art dealers Arthur Tooth and Sons and was…