Auguste Louis Lepère
Revived European wood engraving
Auguste-Louis Lepère was a French painter and etcher. Lepère is also considered a leader in the creative revival of wood engraving in Europe. Auguste Louis Lepère was born in Paris. At the age of thirteen, he began his artistic education in the Paris studio of the engraver Joseph Burn-Smeeton. By the mid-1870s, Lepère had emerged as one of the most renowned printmakers of his time. Lepère focused mostly on daily life in both his etchings and wood engravings. He is now remembered for his innovations, such as the use of colored paper and the combining of etching and wood engraving on the same print. The last years of Lepère's life were given almost exclusively to wood engraving. In total, his graphic oeuvre consists of over 150 etchings, over 200 wood engravings and 14 lithographs. He died at Domme, aged 68.
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Artworks by this artist (377 total)
- Au Marais Inondé; Le Bergère c. 1870-1918
- Dans les Vosges 1914
- Spring probably 1909
- Landscape 1915
- Montagne Ste. Genevieve 1890
- St. Julien le Pauvre; Le Presbytère c. 1870-1918
- Une Chasse au Mont Gérard 1887
- Route de Versailles 1886
- La Seine au Pont Nationale 1914
- Une loge de carrier c. 1870-1918
- Trois otages assis 1914
- Au dormoir de Lantara 1890
- La Route de la Houssoye 1913
- Le Bas Breau 1887
- Le Marché aux Pommes, No. 1 1890
- Le Pont de Poissy 1917
- Pêcheurs Fuyants devant l’Orage 1892
- Large Steamer Ship at Dock, Paris c. 1870-1918
- Self-Portrait 1895
- 14 Juillet, Rue de Belleville, 10 heures 1889