LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

32.13 in. (81.60 cm.) (height) by 46.50 in. (118.10 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed Jules Breton (lower left)

Exhibited:

Providence, Rhode Island, Providence Art Club, . Member's Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolors , February 18-March 4, 1886, no. 14 (lent by Royal C. Taft

Literature:

Edward Strahan, ed., . The Art Treasures of America , Philadelphia, [1879-1882], facsimile edition, 1977, vol. III, pp. 90, 94 . Annette Bourrut Lacouture, . Jules Breton: Painter of Peasant Life , exh. cat., Musée des beaux-arts, Arras; Musée des beaux-arts, Quimper; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, March 16-December 15, 2002, pp. 152, 198, illustrated p. 155, fig. 123

Provenance:

Goupil & Cie, Paris, no. 10686 (acquired in November 1875) . Samuel P. Avery, Jr., New York (acquired from the above through George A. Lucas, April 1876, as. Looking out to Sea ). Gov. Royal Chapin Taft, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above and sold, his estate, American Art Association, New York, February 3, 1921, lot 65, illustrated, as. The Lookout ). Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, Madison, New Jersey (acquired at the above sale and sold, her estate, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, May 14, 1976, lot 35, illustrated, as. Lookout ). Private Collection, Florida (by 1994) . Acquired in 1994