A Peasant Girl Knitting

Jules BretonWW-1865-330572

1865·Oil on canvas·22 5/8 x 18 1/2 in. (57.5 x 47 cm)

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887

Catalogue

Year: 1865
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 22 5/8 x 18 1/2 in. (57.5 x 47 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Jules Breton

Artist

Jules Breton

Painting

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.

Courrières, France

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