《原畫作介紹》
豐收
朱利安．杜培 (法國，1851-1910)
1881年作 (親筆簽名)
油彩．畫布

La Récolte des foins
Julien DUPRÉ (French, 1851-1910)
Signed and dated 1881
Oil on canvas

朱利安‧杜培（Julien Dupré, 1851-1910）為巴比松畫派成員（Barbizon School）裘勒‧杜培（Jules Dupré, 1811-1889）的姪子，向來以動物與農民畫聞名。原接掌家中珠寶事業的杜培，因1870年爆發的普法戰爭（Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871）被迫歇業，而選擇進入法國美術學院（Ecole des Beaux-Arts）就讀。

遵循學院派訓練的杜培，約在1860至1870年之際開始描繪農民工作、生活的情景，並承襲是米勒（Jean-François Millet, 1814-1875）和布荷東（Jules Breton, 1827-1906）的畫風。

現藏於奇美博物館的【豐收】1881年入圍官方的沙龍展，並獲得部分評論家的讚賞。畫中描繪農民們採收乾草的情景是杜培相當喜愛的主題之一，但此作將滿載乾草的貨車放置於前景並刻意凸顯其巨大尺寸的安排，卻是杜培作品中相當少見且特殊的類型。

畫面藉由下方男子翻草上抬的動勢引導出立於貨車上方的男子，以及貨車後方翻草的女子、婦人與小孩。以貨車上方的男子為頂點，連結畫面兩側的馬匹與翻草女子形成了三角形構圖，為畫面帶來平穩、安定的效果。而沿著貨車左上右下的斜度所帶出的景深走向，則在畫面後方的馬匹、農民、茅草屋與天空的鋪陳下，更彰顯作品的廣度與深度。

遍布於前景草地的褐黃色乾草為主要色調之一，畫家運用深淺不一褐黃色調堆疊出乾草堆的厚實感，同時輔以畫刀刮出乾草的真實質感。而遠方天空由白到灰黑的漸層色調，不僅增添畫面韻律之感，更反映當下烏雲籠罩的天候。整個畫面在褐黃色調的乾草與綠色調的平原的配搭下，展現出較為樸實、平和的氣氛。然而，以灰黑色為主的天空，不僅讓畫面蒙上烏雲密布之感，亦醞釀著農民急欲將乾草採收完畢的急切心情。

Barbizon was originally a small village located southeast of Paris and northwest of the forest of Fontainebleau. Between 1820 to 1870, a group of artists settled there and began to include natural scenes into their paintings, and as such were called the Barbizon School. Julien Dupré was nephew to Jules Dupré and was famous for animal and peasant paintings. He was considered successor to Jean-François Millet and Jules Breton in terms of concept and style.
The Hay Harvest was exhibited at the1881 Paris Salon. Julien Dupré enjoyed depicting peasants collecting hay in his painting, but this piece is unusual and is a rare type as a carriage with a huge load of hay is placed in the foreground to exaggerate its size. The man racking the hay upward in the center leads audience to the top of the carriage and the figure behind it. The man on the carriage is taken as the top vertex, and a triangle in composition is formed with the horses and a girl on either side as two other vertices to stable and balance the view. While the forward-moving carriage elongates the perspective far into the front, the horses, peasants and cottages underneath the sky add width and depth to the view. 
An atmosphere of simplicity prevails in the brownish and green colors. By applying layers of paint in different shades of brown, Dupré creates thickness of the hay in the foreground, and then a realistic texture with a few scrapes by the palette knife. The far-reaching sky changes in color from white to grey and to dark, adding rhythm to the scene and reflecting the anxiety of the peasants who work in haste to harvest the hay under the overcast sky.