The girl in that picture could never have been anything but a peasant, and the same is true of others of Jules Breton's best paintings. The most severe critics of Breton admitted that in technique ...

that the artist invited Breton to study with him in his studio as well as at the Royal Academy in Ghen His election to the Institut de France solidified his status as one of the most respected ...

Usually it’s the return of Nazi-purloined art that grabs art world headlines. Today, however, word came across our desk that "The End of the Working Day" (1886-87) by Jules Breton, in the ...

Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue des tableaux, pastels & dessins par Jules Breton, cat. exh., 31 May 1911 ... which will be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist.

(CN) - A painting by Jules Breton that the German army stole during World War I will be returned to France, the Justice Department announced, saying that the painting was discovered hanging in a New ...

but the National Gallery's Jules Breton: Painter of Peasant Life actually fits into the context of a wider re-evaluation of 19th century European art and, especially, a reappraisal of the French ...

When I worked as a security guard at the Toledo Museum of Art there was no mechanism by which the frontline staff could help shape the museum’s content. Jules Breton, "The Shepherd's Star" (1887 ...

The work by Breton, a 19th century Realist painter, was seized in 1918 by German troops from a museum in Douai, France, the statement said. The painting was sent with other artworks to Belgium.