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Jules Breton

37 works

Jules Breton (1827-1906) was a French Realist painter of rural life and peasant women in the fields, best known for The Song of the Lark. Read more

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Barefoot peasant woman with a sickle gazes upward at a lark in an evening field, with a red sunset behind her.

The Song of the Lark

1884

Painting of a barefoot woman stretching in a field at sunset, with a sack behind her and figures on the horizon.

The Tired Gleaner

1880

Women kneeling and bending to weed a green field at sunset, with a crescent moon and a standing figure on the left.

The Weeders

1868

Young peasant woman in white bonnet knitting while seated barefoot against a tree in a dappled grassy woodland.

A Peasant Girl Knitting

ca. 1870

Self-portrait of a bearded man with round spectacles holding a paintbrush before an easel, signed Jules Breton 1895.

Self-portrait

1895

Painting of a woman in a grey headscarf holding a wounded seagull by the shore, with the sea behind her.

The Wounded Seagull

1878

Jeanne Calvet

1865

Women and children bent over gleaning wheat in a sunlit field, with haystacks, a village church and a standing overseer.

The Gleaners

1854

Peasant women and children harvest and sieve rapeseed in an open field, with men and a village in the distance.

The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed)

1860

Woman in white headscarf lying on a rock gazing at turquoise sea waves, with a distant headland and seagulls.

The Cliff (La Falaise)

1874

Head study of a man with curly grey hair and a downcast gaze, in a white shirt, signed Jules Breton 68.

Tête de Breton, étude pour le Pardon

1868

Oil study of a young Breton woman in a white coif and white collar, with loose dark outlines on unpainted linen.

Tête de jeune Bretonne, étude pour le Pardon

1868

L'homme à la pipe

1860

Painting of young girls in white dresses and veils holding candles in a procession through a leafy village setting.

Les communiantes à Courrières

1855

Oil sketch of peasants kneeling and huddling under trees as a storm gathers over an open field, a woman holding a child at ce

La foudre

1865

Painting of a rainbow over farm buildings and a meadow, with two women and a kneeling figure in the foreground.

L'arc-en-ciel à Courrières

1855

Oil sketch of a family seated on grass under a tree, a bearded man at left, women in white, a small child.

Réunion de famille à Bourron-Marlotte (Théodore de Banville dans la forêt de Fontainebleau)

1857

Painting of a seated woman with a white parasol overlooking a blue bay with hills under a cloudy sky.

Femme à l'ombrelle, baie de Douarnenez

1875

Painting of a religious procession with clergy and white-dressed children crossing a golden wheat field, villagers kneeling i

The Blessing of the wheat in Artois

1857

Barefoot woman carrying a sack on her head across a field at sunset, with a sickle at her waist and a distant farmhouse.

The Shepherd’s Star

1887

Painting of a young peasant woman in a red headscarf resting her chin on her hand beside a hoe, with a distant church tower.

Young Peasant Girl with a Hoe

1882

Painting of a barefoot woman with a sickle in a field at sunset, looking up toward birds in the sky.

Song of the Lark

1884

Painting of dark stormy waves breaking on a sandy shore beneath wooded cliffs and a heavy grey sky.

Coastal Cliffs in Stormy Weather

Oil sketch of harvest workers in a field, a woman holding a basin and a man carrying a sheaf of grain.

Poppies (study)

Oil study of peasant women returning from fields at dusk, with a boy carrying a violin and a distant church tower.

Turning Back from the Fields (study)

Painting of Gothic ruins with arches and overgrown walls, with a man in a top hat standing among them beside a tree.

The Ruins of Saint Bavo’s Abbey in Ghent

1853

Oil painting of a young woman in a white headscarf and blue apron holding wheat bundles in a golden field.

The Gleaner

1859

Fishermen and women pull a rope along a pebble beach toward a turquoise sea, with snowy mountains behind.

Fishermen at Menton

1878

Young woman spinning flax on a rocky ledge above the sea, with sailboats and seagulls in the distance.

The Flax Spinner

1872

Woman in a headscarf cutting chrysanthemums in a snowy garden with bare trees and a brick wall behind her.

Last Flowers

1890

Painting of women dancing barefoot in a circle at dusk in an open field, with a crescent moon above a cottage.

Midsummer Night Dance in Courrières

1875

Two young women in headscarves carry baskets of grapes through a sunlit vineyard with a village on the hill behind.

Two young woman picking grapes

1862

Jules Breton (1827-1906) was a French Realist painter of rural life and peasant women in the fields, best known for The Song of the Lark. Browse 37 works by Jules Breton from 23 museums, free to download in HD.