Jules Breton

French, 1827–1906

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Movement: Realism
Provenance: M. Fontaine-Flamant (acquired directly from the artist), 1864
Private collection, 1864 (acquired for 4.000 Frs)
M. Cahusac (and sold, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 14, 1887 for 25.115 frs)
Collection Lockhardt, Pittsburgh, 1905
Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, October 24, 1996, lot 25
Private Collection, Minneapolis, MN (acquired at the above sale)
Exhibitions: Paris, Salon de 1864, No. 257
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1867, No. 87
Williamstown, Massachusetts, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, July 2014 – August 2018
Literature: Jules Breton, Un Peintre Paysan: Souvenirs et Impressions, Paris, 1896, p. 123
Marius Vachon, Jules Breton, Paris, 1899, pp. 107-108, illustrated opp. p. 108
Hollister Sturges, Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, Omaha, 1982, pp. 132-133
Gabriel P. Weisberg, DeCourcy E. Macintosh and Alison McQueen, Collecting in the Gilded Age: Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890-1910, exh. cat., 1997, pp. 227-228 (illustrated)
Annette Bourrut Lacouture, Jules Breton: Painter of Peasant Life, New Haven and London, 2002, 120-122, illustrated p. 175