1827–1906 · Realism. Wikipedia
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make him one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
The Gleaners (French: Les Glaneurs) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Jules Breton, from 1854. The painting depicts an idealized version of peasant life. It is held in the National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin. Breton exhibited The Gleaners at the 1855 Salon (Paris). It was praised by critics and a private collector purchased it.
The Song of the Lark is an 1884 oil on canvas painting by French naturalist artist Jules Breton. The painting shows a peasant farm girl walking in a field transfixed, listening to birdsong at dawn. It was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1885. Since 1894, it has been part of the Henry Field Memorial Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, a collection of oil paintings that had been owned by Henry Field. In 1893, Field's widow, Florence, had established a trust for the purposes of loaning this collection of 44 oil paintings to the museum. On May 26, 1916, she outright gifted the entire collection to the museum.
The Weeders is an oil on canvas painting by Jules Breton, from 1868. It depicts a group of peasant women working the fields of Northern France. The painting is in the permanent collection of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Originally a painter of historical scenes, Jules Breton began to shift with time his focus away from historicity to agrarian scenes. One of the paintings produced as a result of this new focus was The Weeders, which Breton painted after observing a group of farmers in his home town of Courrières picking over a field to clear away weeds and thistle.
Sala 4 "Del Romanticismo a las vanguardias" - Museo Soumaya - Mexico
French: Le pardon de Kergoat en Quéménéven en 1891title QS:P1476,fr:"Le pardon de Kergoat en Quéménéven en 1891"label QS:Lfr,"Le pardon de Kergoat en Quéménéven en 1891"
Although often associated with the Barbizon school, Breton favored a more idealized treatment of his subjects and a more polished style of painting. In this rural scene, probably set in the artist's native Pas-de-Calais, north of Paris, three young women return from the fields at dusk. Their idealized forms contrast markedly with the harshness of Millet's depictions of peasant life.
Two peasant women rest leaning on their rakes as the sun sets. Breton trained in Belgium and in Paris but remained committed to his birthplace, Courrières in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France. His early paintings reflect a concern for the plight for the rural poor, but his later works tended to romanticize their existence.
Painting by Jules Breton, 1882
The Feast of Saint John
Dawn
Last Flowers
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