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Jules Breton

The Gleaner

Auction Closed

February 2, 09:59 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jules Breton

French 1827-1906

The Gleaner


signed lower left: Jules Breton

pencil on paper

sheet: 13 ¼ by 7 ⅞ in.; 33.7 by 20 cm

framed: 19 ¼ by 14 ¼ in.; 49 by 36.5 cm

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 15 December 2000, lot 25

Private Collection, United States

Sale: Christie's New York, 11 December 2018, lot 39

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

The present work is a study for Breton's painting La glaneuse of 1877, exhibited at the Salon de Paris and now in the collection of the Musée de Beaux-Arts d'Arras.


Annette Bourrut-Lacouture confirmed the authenticity of the present lot in 2000.