Jules Breton, 1868 - The Weeders - fine art print

Background information on the artwork from named Jules Breton

The masterpiece The Weeders was created by the French painter Jules Breton in 1868. The original version had the size: 28 1/8 x 50 1/4 in (71,4 x 127,6 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the painter as the medium of the artwork. Besides, this work of art is in the the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900 (public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a side ratio of 16 : 9, which implies that the length is 78% longer than the width. The writer, poet, painter Jules Breton was a European artist from France, whose artistic style can primarily be classified as Realism. The European artist was born in the year 1827 and passed away at the age of 79 in the year 1906.

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Original information about the work of art from the museum's website (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This is a smaller variant of a composition Breton painted in 1860 (Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha) and exhibited to wide acclaim at the Salon of 1861 and the World’s Fair of 1867 in Paris. In his autobiography, Breton described this twilight scene of peasants pulling up thistles and weeds—"their faces haloed by the pink transparency of their violet hoods, as if to venerate a fecundating star"—noting that he had discovered the subject as a "finished picture" near his native village, Courrières, in northern France.