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Two Women Picking Grapes
Jules Breton (French, 1827–1906)
Title
Two Women Picking Grapes
Artist
Jules Breton (French, 1827–1906)
Date
1862
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
23 1/4 × 19 1/4 in. (59.1 × 48.9 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from The Jack Drew Art Endowment Fund for 18th- and 19th-Century Art
Object Number
2012.1
On View
On view
Provenance
Private collection, USA, by May 23, 1990;
Purchased at sale from a private collection, Sotheby’s, New York, May 23, 1990, lot 29, by a private collector, USA, 1990–2011 [1];
Purchased through Sotheby’s private sale by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2012.
[1] Offered for sale by a private collector, Sotheby’s, New York, November 4, 2011, lot 5, but failed to sell.
Exhibition History
Published References
Annette Bourrut Lacouture, Jules Breton, Painter of Peasant Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Ireland, 2002), 116, fig. 72 (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 26, 148–51, (repro.).
Annette Bourrut Lacouture, Jules Breton: Catalogue raisonné: Peintures (Paris: Editions du Sandre, 2025) 135, no. 1862-10 (repro.), as Jeunes vendangeuses, étude pour le motif central des Vendanges à Château-Lagrange.
