Jules Breton Gallery
Oil on canvas; 22 5/8 x 18 1/2 in. (57.5 x 47 cm)

Breton often drew inspiration for his paintings from scenes of peasants and rural life observed in the area around his native village of Courrières. The setting and treatment of the subject are typical of his artistic approach, which lies between the idealized academicism of Bouguereau's "Breton Brother and Sister" (87.15.32) and the social realism of Ribot's "Breton Fisherman and Their Families" (48.187.736). This painting was included in the Salon of 1873.

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Weeders
Brittany Girl
Peasant Girl Knitting
Gleaner
Reapers
Song of the Lark
Vintage at the Chateau Lagrang

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Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton (1827-1906)
Jules Breton was born in Courrières, a small Pas-de-Calais village. He painted peasant imagery such as poetic renderings of single peasant female figures in a landscape posed against the setting sun. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts with de Vigne in Ghent and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won medals at the Salon for his paintings in the 1840's and 1850's. He continued to exhibit throughout the 1870s and into the 1880s and 1890s and his reputation grew such that he became one of the best known painters of his period in his native France as well as England and the United States. In 1886, he became a member of the Institut de France.
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