Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A Breton Peasant Woman with a Fishing Net, Standing by the Sea

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.

Notes
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.
Associated names
Cohen, Karen B., former owner.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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