Xavier Leprince


Auguste-Xavier Leprince was a French painter, drawer and engraver, best known for his paintings of agrarian scenes.

Biography

Xavier Leprince was born in Paris. His father, Anne Pierre Leprince, was a painter and a lithographer. His brothers, and Gustave Leprince, were also painters.
He painted Parisian street scenes and landscapes. He also did paintings depicting the farming life in rural France. For example, his 1822 painting La moisson showed labourers harvesting a field. His 1823 painting, Embarquement des bestiaux sur le Passager dans le port de Honfleur, became emblematic of the cattle paintings of that era. It once belonged to Charles X and is currently in the Louvre
He exhibited at the Salon from 1819 onwards. Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry owned some of his paintings. The landscape painter Eugène Lepoittevin was one of his students.
He died in Nice.

Museum holdings

His works are exhibited at the Louvre and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Musée départemental de l'Oise in Beauvais, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseille, the Musée Thomas-Henry in Cherbourg-Octeville, the Musée Magnin in Dijon, the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Pithiviers, the Musée des beaux-arts in Chambéry, the Musée Crozatier in Le Puy-en-Velay, the, the Château de Pau, and the Château de Gisors. Moreover, two of his paintings are exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.