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Jules Breton
French, 1827 - 1906
Jeanne Calvet
1865
Image Caption
Jules Breton, Jeanne Calvet, 1865, oil on millboard. Clark Art Institute, 1955.661
Medium
oil on millboard
Dimensions
8 11/16 x 7 1/2 in. (22 x 19 cm)
Frame: 12 1/2 x 11 1/8 x 1 1/8 in. (31.8 x 28.3 x 2.9 cm)
Object Number
1955.661
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sturges, Hollister. Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition. Exhibition catalogue. Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1982. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Bourrut Lacouture, Annette. "Jules Breton: Un source au bord de la mer." Arts de l'Ouest (1987): 10524. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Bourrut Lacouture, Annette. Jules Breton: La chanson des blés. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Somogy éditions d'art, 2002. Bourrut Lacouture, Annette. Jules Breton: Painter of Peasant Life. New Haven: Yale University Press in Association with the National Gallery of Ireland, 2002. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
The artist (d. 1906, his studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2–3 June 1911, no. 165, ill., as Étude de femme, d’après Jeanne Calvet, sold to Schoeller); Schoeller (from 1911); Frédéric Mallet (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 20 May 1920, no. 14, as Étude de femme, d’après Jeanne Calvet); Robert Sterling Clark (until 1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.