BASTIEN-LEPAGE, JULES

born Nov. 18, 1848, Damvillers, France died Dec. 10, 1884, Paris French painter of rustic outdoor genre scenes widely imitated in France and England. Bastien-Lepage studied under Alexandre Cabanel, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1870, and won a medal at the Salon of 1874 for "Spring Song," which stylistically owes a little to douard Manet. "The Hayfield" (1878; Louvre, Paris) follows in the tradition of Jean-Franois Millet and reveals the sentimental element that characterizes Bastien-Lepage's work. "Joan of Arc Listening to the Voices" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City), which represents Joan as a Lorraine peasant, typifies his subject pictures. He was also a portraitist of note.