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A significant Jules Breton (1827-1906) small collection by this master 19th-century French painter and poet, considered one of the primary transmitters of rural beauty and idyllic vision in France. He was the favorite painter of Eleanor Roosevelt. Featured here: Breton, Jules. ìUn Peintre Paysan,î Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896. First edition, containing a magnificent sketch by Breton (signed, and dated 1895), an early rendering by the artist of his painting in which the woman still has clogs on, while the eventual oil the farm woman has bare feet. Book also signed an inscribed on the half-title: ìA Monsier Lacroix, homage Ö etc., as well as an ALS loosely inserted, March, 1890 to ìCher Monsieur Clarend, regarding receiving his bookÖ on his way to Paries, etc. A five-page manuscript essay by Breton written in fountain pen on octavo sheets touching on the painterís passion for painting. A three-page manuscript poem ìLes Premierer Communicants a Madame Alph. Daudet,î a subject which she painted many times to poet Julia Det, in which the title is crossed out, just like the title of the poem. Julia was married to controversial poet Alphonse de Madame Alphonse Det. Last in this collection is a superb, large etching on parchment from Bretonís famous painting, ìIn the Fields, Evening,î 1885, (28 x 24 inches (etching size), 33.5 x 12 (parchment size). The etching is entitled, "The Gleaner (La Glaneuse), and, per an announcement:, "Among the art masterpieces of Paris, few pictures are better known or more admired than Jules Breton's "Gleaner," in the Luxembourg Gallery. The magnificent peasant woman represented is not an ordinary studio model disguised in homely attire, but is a portrait drawn in the harvest field at Courrieres, in 1877. Of the etching by Luicen Dautrey, Jules Breton writes: "Because I am completely satsisfied with your plate of my 'Glaneuse,' will with pleasure sign a selection of the best proofs." signed by Jules Breton in light pen on lower left, below etching, and beside that what looks to be an original sketch of Breton, and to the far right, a presentation from L. Dautrey, ìto my great cousinÖî. Seller Inventory # 6591
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