Le Retour des Champs (Return from the Fields)(1867)

Category

Painting

Medium

Oil/canvas

Type of Artwork

Original artwork

Signature

lower right

Size of the artwork

29.75 x 50 in(75.57 x 127 cm)

Overall Framed Size

41 x 61 in(104.14 x 154.94 cm)

Condition

good condition

Catalogue raisonné reference

The work will be included in the forthcoming online Jules Breton catalogue raisonne under preparation by Annette Bourrut Lacouture as number P1867-2.

Artwork description

Provenance: Mary J. Morgan, New York, E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia, c.1897, Scott & Fowles, New York, 1922, American Art Galleries, New York, 1937, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1964, Schiller and Bodo, New York, Private Collection, USA. Anderson Galleries, Beverly Hills, Private Collection, Montecito, CA

Exhibited: Paris, Salon, 1867, no. 212, “Exposition Jules Breton (1827-1906),” Musee des Beaux-Arts d’Arras, Arras, March-May 2002; Musee des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, Quimper, June-August 2002; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, September-November 2002. “Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources” Columbus Museum of Art, November 12, 2021 to February 6th, 2022 and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Feb. 27th, 2022- May22, 2022.

Literature: Marius Vachon, Jules Breton, Paris, 1919, p. 33, illustrated
Annette Bourrut Lacouture, Jules Breton: Painter of Peasant Life, 2003, Yale University Press, Page 195, Figure 95 (ill.)

Jules BRETON

(1827-1906)