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Pas Mèche (Nothing Doing)| National Galleries of Scotland Jules Bastien Lepage, Bastien Lepage, Carl Spitzweg, John William Godward, Google Art Project, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, John William Waterhouse, Georges Seurat

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…

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The Grape Harvest, 1880, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the BankGiro Loterij) Jules Bastien Lepage, Bastien Lepage, Masters Drawings, Grape Harvest, Robert Frank, Van Gogh Museum, Art Movements, Art News, Artistic Style

This painting is all about movement. The woman turns towards the men in the vineyard as if they are calling to each other. Your gaze automatically follows hers: behind the hill, a storm is looming.Jules Bastien-Lepage began painting rural subjects in 1876. He had grown up in a farming village and his paintings showed the hard but honest life of country people. This made him an important model for Van Gogh.

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