Monday, June 23, 2025

Jules Breton
(1827- 1906)
 
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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Breton


The Tired Gleaner
1880
oil on fabric
94 x 63.8 cm 
The Cleveland Museum of Art
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.721

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