Jules Breton
1827-1906
A Breton Peasant Woman with a Fishing Net, Standing by the Sea
ca. 1865-1875
24 x 18 inches (610 x 457 mm)
Black chalk on blue-gray laid paper
2022.320
Gift of Karen B. Cohen.
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Watermark: Michellet.
Bretonʼs art, with its focus on women laborers, reflects his origins in the rural town of Courrières in northern France. On later visits to Douarnenez, a fishing community in Brittany, Breton was struck by the monumentality not only of its landscape but of its people. He drew and painted portraits of villagers -- such as this fisherwoman paused in her work -- whom he considered Michelangelesque figures in modern dress.
Bretonʼs art, with its focus on women laborers, reflects his origins in the rural town of Courrières in northern France. On later visits to Douarnenez, a fishing community in Brittany, Breton was struck by the monumentality not only of its landscape but of its people. He drew and painted portraits of villagers -- such as this fisherwoman paused in her work -- whom he considered Michelangelesque figures in modern dress.
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Cohen, Karen B., former owner.
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