Jules Breton, 1880 - The Tired Gleaner - fine art print

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This artwork The Tired Gleaner was painted by the male French painter Jules Breton in 1880. The version of the artpiece was painted with the absolute size: Unframed: 94 x 63,8 cm (37 x 25 1/8 in) and was painted with the technique oil on fabric. The original masterpiece has the following inscription: "signed in black paint lower right corner: Jules Breton 1880". Nowadays, the work of art forms part of the The Cleveland Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the leading museums worldwide that builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of art from all periods and parts of the world, generating new scholarship and understanding, while serving as a social and intellectual hub for its community. We are happy to state that the public domain artwork is being included with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Creditline of the artwork: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection. On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width. The writer, poet, painter Jules Breton was an artist, whose art style was mainly Realism. The Realist painter was born in the year 1827 and deceased at the age of 79 in the year 1906.

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• Acrylic glass print: An acrylic glass print, often referred to as a UV print on plexiglass, will turn your favorite original into décor and makes a viable alternative to dibond and canvas fine art replicas. Your own version of the work of art is being printed with the help of modern UV direct printing machines. It creates rich, deep color tones. The major advantage of a plexiglass fine art copy is that contrasts plus smaller painting details become visible because of the very fine tonal gradation in the picture. Our acrylic glass protects your custom fine art print against light and external influences for many years.
• Metal (aluminium dibond print): Aluminium Dibond prints are metal prints with a true depth effect, creating a contemporary look throuch a surface structure, which is non-reflective. For your Direct Aluminium Dibond print, we print your selected work of art on the surface of the aluminum composite. The colors are luminous and vivid, the details of the print appear clear and crisp.
• The poster print (canvas material): The poster is a UV printed canvas paper with a nice texture on the surface. Please keep in mind, that depending on the size of the poster print we add a white margin between 2-6cm round about the print motif, which facilitates the framing with a custom frame.
• Canvas print: The UV printed canvas material applied on a wood stretcher frame. Your canvas of your favorite masterpiece will let you turn your very own art print into a large work of art as you would see in a gallery. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, meaning that it is easy to hang the Canvas print without any wall-mounts. Canvas prints are suitable for any type of wall.

Important legal note: We try everything to describe the products in as much detail as it is possible and to display them visually on the respective product detail pages. Still, the pigments of the printing material and the imprint might diverge marginally from the representation on the device's monitor. Depending on your settings of your screen and the nature of the surface, not all colors are printed one hundret percent realistically. Considering that all the art reproductions are processed and printed manually, there may as well be minor variations in the motif's exact position and the size.

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Artwork description as provided from the museum (© Copyright - by The Cleveland Museum of Art - The Cleveland Museum of Art)

Gleaning—or picking up what little grain remains after a wheat field has been harvested—was usually the job of the poor, especially women and children. Breton shows a single gleaner stretching against a backdrop of the setting sun, while behind her others still labor in the field. Her bare feet and worn, simple clothing immediately identify her as a peasant. At the same time, however, her expansive gesture and the subdued tones of her skin and clothes link her to the surrounding landscape, both visually and symbolically. This painting not only suggests the hardships of peasant life, but also the grand link between humanity and the land. Like many of his successful contemporaries, Breton met demand for his paintings by copying and making variations of his own works. This picture is similar to a larger, more famous painting that was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1880. The Cleveland collector Hinman H. Hurlbut, who bought this canvas from the artist, probably commissioned Breton to make this smaller variation of the larger painting.