Jules Adolphe Breton: A collection of 79 paintings (HD)

Jules Adolphe Breton: A collection of 79 paintings (HD)

Description: "Jules Breton, born Jules-Adolphe-Aime-Louis Breton, was a painter and poet of the “Official Realist movement”, a government-approved form of Realism. He was renowned for his depictions of the peasant class.

Jules Breton first received artistic instruction at the seminary at St. Bertin near St. Omer. He was introduced to drawing and classical literature at a college in Douai. Felix de Vigne, an instructor at the Royal Academy of Ghent, invited Breton to attend the academy in 1843 after viewing the young artist’s work. What was initially to be a three-month stay at the academy turned into a three-year engagement. After his time at the Royal Academy, Breton studied under Romantic painter Gustave Wapper for a short while. Breton traveled to Paris in 1847 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Michel-Martin Drolling. In Paris, Breton was introduced to the Realist movement. He became reacquainted with Delalleau, who had also attended St. Bertin and the college in Douai with Breton. Delalleau preached his political ideas to Breton, insisting that the king of France, Louis-Phillipe, was “more cruel than Tiberius or Nero.” Deallaleau’s rants, coupled with the uprising against Louis-Phillipe, greatly influenced Breton’s work. Breton’s art debut was an exhibit of Misere et Desespoir at the Salon in 1849. Faim was exhibited in 1851. The portraits depicted misery and hunger, which were common burdens of the time. Throughout his career, Breton continued to paint and write about socioeconomic issues. Breton began painting landscapes and suburbs of Paris in 1852. Around this time, his health started to deteriorate, and he decided to return to his home town of Courrieres. There, he got the inspiration to paint one of his most famous portraits, Les Glaneuses, which featured his fiance as the main figure. Benedictions des Bles was exhibited in 1857 while Breton suffered ongoing illness and anxiety. He visited southern France many times in the 1860s, each time gaining new inspiration for his art. His work in the 1870s drew from the Franco-Prussian war. Through the 1880s and 1890s, Breton continued to exhibit his work at the Salon and earned several awards for his art. He died in Paris on July 5, 1906."

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