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Jules Breton

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 Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
Breton was born on 1 May 1827 in Courrières, a small Pas-de-Calais village.
His first artistic training was not far from Courrières at the College St. Bertin near Saint-Omer. He met the painter Félix De Vigne in 1842 who, impressed by his youthful talent, persuaded his family to let him study art. Breton left for Ghent in 1843 where he continued to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts with de Vigne and the painter Hendrik Van der Haert. In 1846, Breton moved to Antwerp where he took lessons with Egide Charles Gustave Wappers and spent some time copying the works of Flemish masters. In 1847, he left for Paris where he hoped to perfect his artistic training at the École des Beaux-Arts.
His poetic renderings of single peasant female figures in a landscape, posed against the setting sun was very popular, especially in the United States.
He was one of the best known painters of his period in his native France as well as England and the United States.

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The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed)

The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed) (1860)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
Summer

Summer (1891)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
Jeune Fille Pensive

Jeune Fille Pensive

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
The Wounded Seagull

The Wounded Seagull (1878)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
L’arc-en-ciel à Courrières

L’arc-en-ciel à Courrières (1855)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
La Glaneuse

La Glaneuse

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
Fillette Mangeant Des Cerises 

Fillette Mangeant Des Cerises  (1876)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
Two Young Women Picking Grapes (Study For The Vintage At Château Lagrange)

Two Young Women Picking Grapes (Study For The Vintage At Château Lagrange) (1862)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
Bergère de Douarnenez

Bergère de Douarnenez

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
Peasant woman threading a needle

Peasant woman threading a needle (1861)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
Une Sarcleuse

Une Sarcleuse (1883)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
La petite couturière

La petite couturière (1858)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
Femme à l’ombrelle, baie de Douarnenez

Femme à l’ombrelle, baie de Douarnenez (1870-1875)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
A Girl with a Rake

A Girl with a Rake (1859)

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
Shepherd’s Star

Shepherd’s Star

Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)
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