LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

26.26 in. (66.70 cm.) (height) by 39.61 in. (100.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Jules Breton 1873' (l.r.)

Exhibited:

Vienna, Weltausstellung, 1873, no. 87, as Die Freundinnen. Paris, Exposition universelle, 1878, no. 128. Miami, Lowe Art Museum, Masterworks of the Nineteenth Century, April-June, 1979, pp. 19, 22, unnumbered, illustrated, as Setting Out for the Fields. Columbus Museum of Art, on long-term loan, October 1996-January 1998.

Literature:

J. Breton, Life of an Artist, New York, 1892, opp. p. 235, illustrated, as Setting out for the Fields. H. Sturges et al, Jules Breton and the Rural Tradition, exh. cat., New York, 1982, p. 89, under no. 31, as The Departure for the Fields. A. Bourrut Lacouture, Jules Breton, Painter of Peasant Life, exh. cat., New Haven and London, 2002, p. 252, as The Friends.

Provenance:

Waring collection, London, (probably Charles Waring, d. 1887) by 1873, until at least 1878. Edwin Seymour Chapin (1837-1901), New York. His sale; American Art Galleries, New York, 27-28 January 1893, lot 90, as Departure for the Fields. with William Schaus Art Galleries, New York, acquired at the above sale. with Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York. Private collection, Ohio, acquired directly from the above circa 1940, until 1998. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 6 May 1998, lot 120, as Les Amies (Setting out for the Fields). Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.