Hippolyte Camille Delpy
Washerwomen along Riverbank, Sunset
circa 1880

Name: Washerwomen along Riverbank, Sunset
Brand: Hippolyte Camille Delpy
Price: 9000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

A warm and romantic work by a very noted French Barbican artist. An older French frame of very high quality. An excellent painting to put in a room and be transported to France! The size of the panel inside the frame is 13 x 23 5/8 - so the size listed is the total dimensions with the frame. In Lavandières, Bord de Rivière Hippolyte-Camille Delpy combines the poetical style of his mentor Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot with the more naturalistic style of his other mentor and teacher Charles-Francois Daubigny. Delpy is a second tier Barbizon painter who very successfully took the best of his teachers and came up with an iconic style of his own. A romanticism infuses the picture, as the rich yellow sky idealizes the mundane activity of the washerwomen below, elevating their presence to one that poetically is in sync with nature. The picture also demonstrates Delpy’s understanding of Daubigny’s use and range of greens, although Delpy has a greater intensity of color that enlivens his work. Delpy consistently chose to depict washerwomen and spent his career doing so. The artists such as Delpy, Breton and L’Hermitte who chose to paint in the countryside versus Paris, felt that the peasants were closer to the land, to nature and subsequently to God. They had an empathy for these people, and they chose to depict them as connected to nature and in an elevated light. Hippolyte-Camille Delpy was born on April 6th, 1842 in the Burgundian region of France. His father Etienne Delpy was a pharmacist, a profession which afforded the Delpy family a comfortable existence. The elder Delpy hoped that his son would in turn become a pharmacist and continue in the family business. Yet, when the younger Delpy met the respected landscape painter Charles-Francois Daubigny, a friend of the family through Etienne’s brother-in-law the engraver Lavoignant, Hippolyte became interested in pursuing more artistic endeavors. Daubigny often invited the young Delpy along on his walks and painting excursions.

Creator:

Hippolyte Camille Delpy (1842 - 1910)

Creation Year:

circa 1880

Dimensions:

Height: 18.25 in (46.36 cm)Width: 28.75 in (73.03 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)

Medium:

Oil,Panel

Movement & Style:

Barbizon School

Period:

Late 19th Century