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| View Original: | Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton - Repose - Walters 37902.jpg (1800x1490) | |||
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| Keywords: Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton - Repose - Walters 37902.jpg This drawing dates from perhaps the most formally successful decade of Breton's career The artist represents a young woman lost in dreamy contemplation as she pauses for rest during the harvest Her fellow harvesters continue to work behind her and there are haystacks visible in the distance The contrast is notable between the highly finished manner of the resting woman and the far sketchier treatment of the landscape background and secondary figures The resting woman is characteristic of Breton's classicizing treatment of form in the 1860s but it may also reflect an awareness of more recent sources 1867 charcoal and white chalk on blue thick heavily textured cartridge-style laid paper; the blue color comes from blue and red textile fibers in a white furnish cm 47 6 57 5 accession number 37 902 20842 William T Walters Baltimore before 1879 mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters before 1879 Jules Breton/1867 in charcoal lower right; 823 on reverse of frame upper right; Walters 209 on label attached to reverse of frame upper left; watermarked MFDT in block letters The Essence of Line Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Memphis; The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown; Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 1982-1983 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D The Essence of Line Paintings by Jules Breton Temporary for Cat-a-lot - Female humans Black and white photographs of hand gestures Hands on head People resting Sitting with hand on head Kerchiefs in art Drawings in the Walters Art Museum 1867 drawings Contemplation | ||||
