Artwork description by the museum (© Copyright - by Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris - www.petitpalais.paris.fr)
Farmers refugees under trees during a thunderstorm are frightened by a branch that has been shattered by lightning. central motif of the composition, a woman standing holding her young child in her arms to protect. At the far left is the plain and village topped by thick clouds.
In a letter to his wife in July 1865 Jules Breton evokes a violent storm which he is a witness in the countryside of Cernay. This study oil could be the memory of this incident.
Scene, Storm, Lightning, Farmer, Tree, Plain, Fear - Fright
Structured details of the artpiece
Title of the work of art: | "Lightning" |
Classification of the artpiece: | painting |
General category: | modern art |
Century: | 19th century |
Created in the year: | 1865 |
Age of artwork: | over 150 years old |
Original medium: | Oil, Canvas (material) |
Original size: | Height: 48,5 cm, Width: 76,5 cm |
Signed (artwork): | Signature - Bottom right: "Jules Breton" |
Museum / location: | Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris |
Location of museum: | Paris, France |
Web URL: | Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris |
License type: | public domain |
Courtesy of: | Petit Palais Paris |
General background information on the artist
Name: | Jules Breton |
Aliases: | Breton Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis, Jules Breton, Breton Adolph Aime Louis, Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, Adolph Aime Louis, Breton Jules-Adolphe-Aime Louis, Juels Breton, breton j., J. Breton, ברטון ז'ול, j breton, Breton J., Breton Jules-Adolphe-Aimé-Louis, Breton Jules, breton jules, Jules-Adolphe-Aimé-Louis Breton, Breton, Breton Jules Adolphe |
Gender: | male |
Nationality of artist: | French |
Professions: | writer, poet, painter |
Home country: | France |
Artist classification: | modern artist |
Art styles: | Realism |
Life span: | 79 years |
Year born: | 1827 |
Year of death: | 1906 |
Item information
Product type: | art print |
Reproduction method: | reproduction in digital format |
Manufacturing process: | digital printing (UV direct print) |
Provenance: | Germany |
Type of stock: | on demand production |
Proposed product use: | home décor, wall gallery |
Orientation of the artwork: | landscape format |
Aspect ratio: | 3 : 2 |
Image aspect ratio meaning: | the length is 50% longer than the width |
Available options: | metal print (aluminium dibond), canvas print, acrylic glass print (with real glass coating), poster print (canvas paper) |
Canvas on stretcher frame (canvas print) variants: | 30x20cm - 12x8", 60x40cm - 24x16", 90x60cm - 35x24", 120x80cm - 47x31", 150x100cm - 59x39" |
Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating) variants: | 30x20cm - 12x8", 60x40cm - 24x16", 90x60cm - 35x24", 120x80cm - 47x31" |
Poster print (canvas paper) size options: | 60x40cm - 24x16", 90x60cm - 35x24", 120x80cm - 47x31" |
Aluminium print (aluminium dibond material) size options: | 30x20cm - 12x8", 60x40cm - 24x16", 90x60cm - 35x24", 120x80cm - 47x31" |
Framing of the art copy: | without frame |
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- Canvas print: A UV printed canvas applied on a wooden stretcher frame. Besides, printed canvas generates a attractive and enjoyable feeling. Your canvas print of this artwork will let you turn your into a large collection piece like you would see in a gallery. A canvas print has the advantage of being relatively low in weight, which means that it is easy to hang the Canvas print without additional wall-mounts. Canvas prints are suitable for all kinds of walls.
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- Acrylic glass print: A glossy print on acrylic glass, which is often referred to as a fine art print on plexiglass, will transform the original into brilliant décor. The major upside of an acrylic glass fine art print is that sharp contrasts and minor painting details will be identifiable because of the precise gradation. The acrylic glass protects your chosen fine art print against light and external influences for decades.
- Aluminium dibond print: An Aluminium Dibond print is a print material with an outstanding depth effect - for a modern impression and a non-reflective surface structure. For the Direct Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print the selected artwork onto the aluminium surface.
Lightning is a masterpiece made by Jules Breton in the year 1865. The 150 year-old masterpiece measures the size of Height: 48,5 cm, Width: 76,5 cm. Oil, Canvas (material) was applied by the painter as the medium of the piece of art. The artwork has the following inscription: Signature - Bottom right: "Jules Breton". The work of art is in the the digital collection of Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris. We are happy to reference that the masterpiece, which is in the public domain is being included with courtesy of Petit Palais Paris.In addition to that, the artwork has the creditline: . Furthermore, alignment is landscape and has a ratio of 3 : 2, which means that the length is 50% longer than the width. Jules Breton was a writer, poet, painter from France, whose style can be attributed primarily to Realism. The French artist was born in 1827 and deceased at the age of 79 in the year 1906.
Legal note: We try everything in order to describe the art products as accurate as possible and to display them visually in our shop. However, the tone of the print products and the printing can diverge marginally from the representation on the device's screen. Depending on the settings of your screen and the quality of the surface, not all color pigments are printed one hundret percent realistically. In view of the fact that all the fine art prints are printed and processed manually, there might also be slight differences in the motif's size and exact position.
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