Stanislas Lépine

Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine (October 3, 1835 – September 28, 1892) was a French painter who specialized in landscapes, especially views of the Seine.

An important influence in his artistic formation was Corot, whom he met in Normandy in 1859, becoming his student the following year.

He is considered a harbinger of the future, heralding the evolution of traditional plein-air landscape painting into Impressionism and modern art.

Lépine was part of a movement of artists who painted outside, developing a new visual vocabulary that captured the changeability of nature, an “impression” of a landscape replacing a literal reproduction of it.

Lépine was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 for his painting Pont de l'Estacade.