Chestnut Trees above a River
Auguste Lepère
c.1900
Medium
pastel over watercolor and gouache on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 37 x 52.1 cm (14 9/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helen L. Porter and James T. Dyke
Accession Number
2015.206.1
About the Artist
Auguste Lepère · 1849–1918
Auguste-Louis Lepère (1849–1918), son of the sculptor François Lepère, was born in Paris on November 30, 1849, into an artistic family that shaped his early path. At age thirteen, he apprenticed in the Paris studio of the English wood engraver Joseph Burn Smeeton, honing his skills in wood engraving until 1867. He furthered his training with drawing classes under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran at the...