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Émile-Auguste Hublin was born and raised in Angers, the historical capitol of the region known as Anjou in northwestern France.
...paintings, such as The Lonely Maid, 1873, or A Friend in Need, 1879, spotlight young peasant women staring pensively out at the viewer or into the distance. Again, the figures are fully three-dimensional in form, a direct contrast to the increasingly disembodied females that were favored in the academic salons at this time. Likewise, the costumes are more akin to the ragtag clothing of Courbet’s Stonebreakers than the prettified peasant garb of Jules Breton. Hublin’s work is thus an unusual blend of neoclassicism, mid-century realism, and academic tradition.
Nonetheless, he was a successful academic painter, with regular exposure at the annual Salon exhibitions, and a thriving market for his work. His images of young peasant women were undoubtedly sold in the growing number of commercial galleries in Paris, and perhaps also in London. He seems to have been particularly popular with British collectors, where the auction records for his paintings show a steady increase in price throughout the twentieth century.
Like so much else about Emile Auguste Hublin, information about the exact date of his death is uncertain, but it seems to have occurred around 1891. By Janet Whitmore, Ph.D.,
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