Quimper museum permanent collection guide

André Cariou

English

€ 15

 

          

Jules Breton, Painter of Peasant Life

Annette Bourrut Lacouture

Somogy éditions d'art, Paris, 2002

€ 23.20

 

Exhibition catalogue held at the musée des beaux-arts, Arras, the musée des beaux-arts, Quimper and the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2002.

Jules Breton (1827-1906), known as one of the first 'peasant painters', created beautiful scenes of rural French life and was a highly popular figure among the Salon artists of his era.