Jules Breton

1827–1906 · Realism

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.

37 paintings

• The Song of the Lark (1884)
• The Tired Gleaner (1880)
• La foudre (1865)
• Les communiantes à Courrières (1855)
• Fileuse sur les rochers à Douarnenez (1870)
• Woman with umbrella, Douarnenez bay (1870)
• L'homme à la pipe (1860)
• L'arc-en-ciel à Courrières (1855)
• Réunion de famille à Bourron-Marlotte (Théodore de Banville dans la forêt de Fontainebleau) (1857)
• Tête de Breton, étude pour le Pardon (1868)
• Tête de jeune Bretonne, étude pour le Pardon (1868)
• Jeanne Calvet (1865)
• Love Tokens (1855)
• A la Fontaine (1892)
• Le Bedeau de Kerlaz (1868)
• The harvest (1865)
• Young mother breastfeeding (1873)
• Jeune fille tricotant (version 2) (1860)
• Summer (1891)
• The Close of Day (1865)
• Self-portrait (1895)
• Coastal Cliffs in Stormy Weather
• Poppies (study)
• The Ruins of Saint Bavo’s Abbey in Ghent (1853)
• The Gleaner (1859)
• Shepherd’s Star (1887)
• The Flax Spinner (1872)
• Last Flowers (1890)
• Midsummer Night Dance in Courrières (1875)
• Two Young Women Picking Grapes (1862)
• The Gleaners (1854)
• A Girl with a Rake (1859)
• The Wounded Seagull (1878)
• Peasants Resting (1882)
• A Peasant Girl Knitting (ca. 1870)
• The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed) (1860)
• The Cliff (La Falaise) (1874)