Art Institute of Chicago the Song of the Lark

1884

Jules Adolphe Breton
French, 1827-1906

Status: On View, Gallery 222
Section: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jules Adolphe Breton
Title: The Song of the Lark
Origin: France
Engagement: 1884
Medium: Oil on sail
Inscriptions: Inscribed at lower left: Jules Breton / Courrieres 1884
Dimensions: 43 1/2 × 33 3/4 in. (110.6 × 85.eight cm)
Credit Line: Henry Field Memorial Drove
Reference Number: 1894.1033
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Roger Marx, "Le Salon de 1885," Le Voltaire (May 1, 1885), p. 1.
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Have You Seen America'southward Best Loved Picture 'The Song of the Lark'? (Chicago, 1934), n.p., ill.
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Paris, Salon, 1885, true cat. 369.
Chicago, Worlds Columbian Exhibition: Loan Collection: Strange Masterpieces Owned in the United states, 1893, no. 3047.
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, An Exhibition of Literature and Poetry in Painting Since 1850, January-February, 1933, cat. eight (ill.).
Los Angeles Fine art Association, The Song of the Distraction by Jules Breton Lent past the Art Constitute of Chicago, March 1935, no true cat.
Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, June 1935, no cat.
Denver Fine art Museum, Spring Quarterly Exhibition: Man at Piece of work, March 2-Apr 27, 1952, no true cat.
Los Angeles, Municipal Art Gallery, Sometime Favorites Revisited, Oct half dozen-Nov 8, 1959.
Muskegon, Hackley Art Gallery, November 1-30, 1955.
Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts (Smithsonian Institution), American Art in the Barbizon Mood, January 23-April 20, 1975, cat. 1 (sick.).
Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, Nov 6, 1982-January 2, 1983, cat. 39 (ill.), traveled to Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, January xvi-March vi, 1983 and Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Apr 2-June 5, 1983.
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Fine art Establish of Chicago, Oct 18-Dec 17, 1985 cat. 12 (sick.), traveled to Fukuoka Art Museum, January five-February ii, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-Apr thirteen, 1986.
Norfolk, Va., Chrysler Museum, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, September 29-December 17, 1989, no cat. no. (ill.); Philadelphia University of the Fine Arts, February i-Apr xv, 1990; Memphis Brooks Museum of Fine art, May six-July xv; New York Historical Society, September v-Nov 15, 1990.
The Art Establish of Chicago, Chicago's Dream A Earth'south Treasure: The Art Plant of Chicago 1893-1993, November i-Jan nine, 1994, no cat. no., figs. 10, xi, pl. 5.
Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modernistic Art from The Art Found of Chicago, Apr xx-May 29, 1994, true cat. 10 (sick.), traveled to Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Fine art, June x-July 1994 and Yokohama Museum of Fine art, Baronial six-September 25, 1994.
Yamanahsi Prefectural Museum, Return to Nature: J.F. Millet, the Barbizon Artists, and the Renewal of the Rural Tradition, September 26-December 12, 1998, cat. Half dozen-6 (ill.).
Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras, Jules Breton: La chanson des blés, March 16-June two, 2002, cat. 95 (ill.), traveled to Quimper, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts, June 15-September viii, 2002 and Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, September 23-December 15, 2002, fig. 175 (cat. 95).
Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century French republic, Nov 6, 2007—March 23, 2008, no. 4 (sick.), fig. 37.
Lincoln, Nebraska, Sheldon Museum of Art, Visual Cather: The Author's Pictorial Imagination, May 19-August 30, 2015, no cat.
Worcester, Worcester Fine art Museum, Coming Away: Winslow Homer in England, Nov 11, 2018-February 4, 2018 and Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, March 1-May 20, 2018.

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