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Jules Breton
French Naturalist painter, author & poet
born 1 May 1827 - died 5 July 1906

Also known as: Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, Adolph Aime Louis.


Student of: Martin Drolling (1752-1817) in 1847, Hendrik Van der Haert (1790-1846) in 1843, Félix de Vigne (1806-1862) in 1843, Baron Gustave Wappers (1803-1874) in 1846.
Brother of: Emile Breton (1831-1902).
Father of: Virginie Demont-Breton (1859-1935).
Friend of: François Bonvin (1817-1887), Gustave Brion (1824-1877).
Son-in-law of: Félix de Vigne (1806-1862) in 1858.

Member of: Institute of France (from 1886); Légion d'Honneur (from 1861).
Student at: Academy of Ghent (from 1843); College St. Bertin, Courrières.

As one of the primary academic painters of the nineteenth century, Jules Breton evolved a painting style that combined a realist selection of thematic material with an interest in creating figural types that reflected the idealism of the classical traditions. Jules Breton’s paintings were often regarded as containing poetic references and Jules Breton’s compositions suggest a timeless world where the workers of the field symbolically were linked with literary elegies that evoked their best qualities. Although Jules Breton’s works were out of favor for a long period of time, and Jules Breton’s compositions were often used as convenient examples of so-called "bad-painting" by supporters of the modernist camp who panned any style whose goal was to portray the trials of the human condition instead of being dedicated to destroying the definiing characteristics of great traditional art. Breton's celebration of human values of work, family, home and hearth did not fit into their nihilistic paradigm, despite Jules Breton’s poignant and poetic themes painted with a compositional force and sophistication of technique that clearly places him amongst the greatest painters of Jules Breton’s time. Breton's paintings have returned to public consciousness through recent exhibitions and an interest in collecting Jules Breton’s works by private patrons and museums. He is an painter who has benefitted greatly from the long over due revisionist reappraisal of nineteenth century academic painting.

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0 The Recall of the Gleaners 
0 The Vintage at Chateau Lagrange 

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