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The Departure for the Fields
Jules Breton (French, 1827–1906)
Title
The Departure for the Fields
Artist
Jules Breton (French, 1827–1906)
Date
1857
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
25 × 37 in. (63.5 × 94 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Given in Memory of Mary and Mickey Landen
Object Number
2021.11
On View
On view
Provenance
Probably purchased by a private collector, 1857;
By descent within the family, USA, 1857–1982;
With Richard Green Galleries, London, by November 11, 1982;
Purchased from Richard Green Galleries by Security National Bank, Omaha, November 11, 1982–December 29, 2021;
Their gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2021.
Exhibition History
The French Gallery, London, 1857.
Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 6–January 2, 1983; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, January 16–March 6, 1983; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, April 2–June 5, 1983, no. 3.
Published References
Jules Breton, La vie d’un artiste: Art et nature (Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1890), 228.
Jules Breton, trans. Mary J. Serrano, The Life of Art Artist: An Autobiography (New York: D. Appleton, 1890), 235.
Katherine Harper Mead, ed., The Preston Morton Collection of American Art (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1981), 262, 263, (repro.).
Hollister Sturges, Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, exh. cat. (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1983), cover, 12, 21, 66, 67, (repro.).
Annette Bourrut Lacouture, Jules Breton: Catalogue raisonné: Peintures (Paris: Editions du Sandre, 2025) 88, no. 1857-15, (repro.).
