Jules Breton

The Weeders



Jules Breton - The Weeders



Jules Breton
The Weeders
1868
71.4 x 127.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Collis P. Huntington


Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 75
Sjraar van Heugten, Joachim Pissarro and Chris Stolwijk, Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night, Brussels, 2008, fig. 77
Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh and the artists he loved, New York, 2021, p. 46


Provenance

Henry Probasco, Cincinnati (until 1887)
his sale, American Art Association, New York, April 18, 1887, no. 96
S.A. Coale, Jr., St. Louis (from 1887)
Collis P. Huntington, New York (by 1891–d. 1900)
bequest to MMA with life interest to his widow, Arabella D. Huntington, later [from 1913] Mrs. Henry E. Huntington, 1900–d. 1924
life interest to their son, Archer Milton Huntington, 1924–terminated in 1925

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 25.110.66

Other works by Jules Breton


Jules Breton The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark
1844

Jules Breton St. John's Eve
St. John's Eve
1875

Jules Breton The Garden of Courrières in Spring
The Garden of Courrières in Spring
c. 1860-61

Jules Breton The Road to Courrières
The Road to Courrières
1854

Jules Breton A Peasant Girl Knitting
A Peasant Girl Knitting
c. 1870