MutualArt.com: Jules Breton
- #news
- #headline
Figure timeline
Jules Breton
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make him one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · French painter (1827–1906) · painter · writer · poet · also Jules Breton, Adolph Aime Louis Breton, Jules-Adolphe-Aime Louis Breton, Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton, Jules Adolphe Breton, Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton
Born 1 May 1827 · Died 5 July 1906 · Q282043
18 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
6 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Update
- Update
2026· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
Dozens of these 19th century prints are available on websites like EBay beginning at under $10
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1912· 1 entry
Rue Jules Breton in the 13th arrondissement of Paris was given his name
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1911· 1 entry
Breton was essentially a painter of rustic life, especially in the province of Artois, which he quit only three times for short excursions: in 1864 to Provence, and in 1865 and 1873 to Brittany, whence he derived some of
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1906· 1 entry
Died 1906-07-05.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
1898· 1 entry
Knoedler published a catalog of their prints and listed eight prints after Jules Breton including The Evening etched by Charles Waltner, four prints etched by Lionel Aristide Lecouteux, The Song of the Lark by Charles Lo
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1889· 1 entry
Breton was made commander of the Legion of Honor, and in 1899 foreign member of the Royal Academy of London
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1886· 2 entries
Breton was elected a member of the Institut de France on the death of Baudry
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, bid $45,000 at a New York auction for Breton's work The Communicants (1884)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1880· 1 entry
Vincent van Gogh was so poor he walked on foot 85 kilometers to Courrières to pay a visit to Breton, whom he greatly admired, but turned back, put off by Breton's high wall
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1854· 1 entry
Returned to the village of Courrières where he settled
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1853· 1 entry
Exhibited Return of the Reapers, the first of numerous rural peasant scenes influenced by the works of the Swiss painter Louis Léopold Robert
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1852· 1 entry
Breton returned to France
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1847· 1 entry
Left for Paris where he hoped to perfect his artistic training at the École des Beaux-Arts
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1846· 1 entry
Breton moved to Antwerp where he took lessons with Egide Charles Gustave Wappers and spent some time copying the works of Flemish masters
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1843· 1 entry
Where he continued to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts with de Vigne and the painter Hendrik Van der Haert
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1842· 1 entry
Who, impressed by his youthful talent, persuaded his family to let him study art
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1827· 1 entry
Born 1827-05-01.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth