Jules Breton
French painter (1827-1906) · France · On the map · Artists · Died at 79
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.
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The Song of the Lark, oil on canvas, 1884, Art Institute of Chicago
The End of the Working Day, 1886-87, Brooklyn Museum
A Pardon in Kergoat (1891). Breton visited Brittany several times, believing he had (as his name implied) Breton ancestry.
Wounded Seagull (1878) oil on canvas, depicting a woman on the coast of Brittany holding a bird to her breast, with another flying in the distance.
Jeanne Calvet (1865), oil on millboard, Clark Art Institute
