Ludovic lepic biography

Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic (17 December 1839 – 27 October 1889) was a.
Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic was a French artist, archaeologist and patron of the arts.
Ludovic Lepic was in 1876 a sort quest of honour, showing far out the most (49) art-works.

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Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic

Impressionism: partaker of the first two ‘impressionist’ expositions

(1839-1889)

on the edge of Impressionism

Was Lepic an Impressionist?
Ludovic Lepic only joined 2 of the 8 ‘impressionist’ expositions. He had contacts with Monet and was befriended with Degas, but further on he doesn’t seem to have had intensive contacts within the circles of friends. In this sense we could say that Lepic was on the edge of the ‘impressionist’ art-movement.
Caillebotte included Lepic in the group of fighters for realism around Degas. So, in the eyes of Caillebotte Lepic was not an Impressionist. In the eyes of several art-critics he wasn’t either. Still, Lepic often rendered atmospheric influences and the time of the day, also in his etchings. When we look at his paintings, this atmospheric rendering of the light, is not so obvious. His brushstroke is more smooth, also rendering details. His colours are more subdued. He never used juxtaposed brushstrokes or blueish or violet shades. Lepic

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Ludovic-Napoléon LEPIC

Paris 1839 - Paris 1889

Biography

An artist, archaeologist, museum curator and art patron, Count Ludovic Lepic (sometimes Le Pic) was expected to follow his father and grandfather into a military career but was allowed to pursue his desire to be an artist instead. He was trained by the Belgian artists Gustave Wappers and Charles Verlat, who encouraged him to take up etching. By 1861 Lepic was established in a studio at the Louvre, and had begun to work as a printmaker, selling his work through the shop of the print publisher Alfred Cadart. He had a particular interested in expanding the technical possibilities of the etching medium and became the youngest associate member of the Société des Aquafortistes, founded by Cadart in 1862. The following year Lepic entered the studio of Charles Gleyre, where among his fellow pupils were Frédéric Bazille, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley, and also exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon. During much of the 1860s Lepic was best known as an animal painter, with a particular penchant for

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Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic

French painter

Ludovic Lepic
Etching by Marcellin-Gilbert Desboutin, c.1876
Born	Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic 17 December 1839 Paris, France
Died	27 October 1889 Paris, France
Known for	Painting, engraving
Movement	Impressionism

Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic (17 December 1839 – 27 October 1889) was a French artist, archaeologist and patron of the arts. He was styled as Vicomte Lepic until his father's death in 1875, when he succeeded to the title of Comte Lepic. He is best remembered today as a friend of Edgar Degas, who included him in some eleven paintings and pastels. He was among the original Impressionist group and later became a recognised marine painter.

Life and career

Lepic was the grandson of the Napoleonic general Louis Lepic, from whom the comital title had descended. His father was Louis-Joseph-Napoléon Lepic (1810–1875), who had a distinguished military career and was a close supporter of Napoléon III.

Destined for a similar career, Ludovic persuaded his father to allow him to train as a