The
Windmill, 1859
Jules Dupré was born in
1811 in Nantes, France, and initially trained in the family porcelain business
before turning fully to painting. He travelled widely through the French
countryside and became closely associated with the Barbizon painters.
Friendship with Théodore Rousseau encouraged his direct study of nature and
changing weather. By the mid-19th century, he had established himself as a
leading landscape painter of the Romantic generation.
His paintings depict stormy skies, wind-bent trees, ponds, and open fields rendered with broad, energetic brushwork. Composition is often anchored by dark foreground masses set beneath expansive cloud formations. He worked primarily in oil on canvas, building rich surfaces through layered paint and deep tonal contrasts. Light breaks through cloud and foliage in sudden passages, creating movement across the landscape.
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