Jules Breton

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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.

Weeders

Brittany Girl

Peasant Girl Knitting

Gleaner

Reapers

Song of the Lark

Vintage at the Chateau Lagrang

Viewer

The Reapers (1860)

Art Gallery and Museum

A French realist depiction of a harvest scene with a group of peasant women, who though coarse in attire are classically Greek in their movements and sentiments.

Type of work: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Provenance: Ernest Gambart; his sale, Christie's, 1861; Earl Grosvenor; given by the Marquis of Westminister to his wife; thence by descent; Sotheby's, 1982.

GRANT
This work was acquired with Art Fund help in 1985.
Vendor: Pyms Gallery
Grant offered: £5,000
Total acquisition cost: £75,000

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