Jules Breton (French, 1827–1906)
The Song of the Lark
INV-9484
Jules Breton (French, 1827–1906)1884
The Song of the Lark
Jules Breton (French, 1827–1906) →19th centuryoil on canvasfrench
Date
1884
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
110.6 × 85.8 cm (43 1/2 × 33 3/4 in.); Framed: 142.3 × 116.9 cm (56 × 46 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Henry Field Memorial Collection
A lone peasant girl pauses her work to listen to a lark singing in the distance. Her emotional response to this moment of natural beauty is accentuated by the glow of the sun rising behind her, suffusing the landscape with golden light.
Jules Breton specialized in scenes of rustic life in the countryside. Having been raised in the rural village of Courrières in northern France, he admired the people living there for their resourcefulness and connection to nature and gained immense popularity by painting them in his idealized style.
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