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Source Description
This drawing dates from perhaps the most formally successful decade of Breton's career. The artist represents a young woman lost in dreamy contemplation as she pauses for rest during the harvest. Her fellow harvesters continue to work behind her, and there are haystacks visible in the distance. The contrast is notable between the highly finished manner of the resting woman and the far sketchier treatment of the landscape background and secondary figures. The resting woman is characteristic of Breton's classicizing treatment of form in the 1860s, but it may also reflect an awareness of more recent sources.
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Document identity
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20842
label
Repose
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obj
dtoType
drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
20842
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drawing
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normalized
title
Repose
description
This drawing dates from perhaps the most formally successful decade of Breton's career. The artist represents a young woman lost in dreamy contemplation as she pauses for rest during the harvest. Her fellow harvesters continue to work behind her, and there are haystacks visible in the distance. The contrast is notable between the highly finished manner of the resting woman and the far sketchier treatment of the landscape background and secondary figures. The resting woman is characteristic of Breton's classicizing treatment of form in the 1860s, but it may also reflect an awareness of more recent sources.
provenance
Purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, June 9, 1883 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 565.
date
1867
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
drawings (visual works)
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1
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1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
47.6
height
57.5
dimensionsRaw
18 3/4 x 22 5/8 in. (47.6 x 57.5 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
""Jules Breton/1867"" in charcoal
lower right; ""823"" on reverse of frame
upper right;""Walters 209"" on label attached to reverse of frame
upper left; watermarked
""MFDT"" in block letters
med
charcoal and white chalk on blue, thick, heavily textured, cartridge-style laid paper; the blue color comes from blue and red textile fibers in a white furnish
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8396
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EAN
exhibition_ids
814
2069
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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