River Landscape with Willow Trees

Acid greens, bright yellows, and brilliant blues give this scene a striking immediacy. The landscape was quite possibly created near the Vendéen village of Saint-Jean-de-Monts, where Auguste Lepère spent his summers after buying a house there in 1892. He was instrumental in bringing his colleagues to the Vendée, an area in western France bordering the Atlantic coast, and in establishing a thriving artistic community there.