FreeThe 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
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.
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.
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.).