Jules Breton
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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 helpe
Jules Breton
The Song of the Lark, oil on canvas, 1884, Art Institute of Chicago
The End of the Working Day, 1886–87, Brooklyn Museum
A Pardon in Kergoat (1891). Breton visited Brittany several times, believing he had (as his name implied) Breton ancestry.
The Song of the Lark (novel)
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The Song of the Lark is a novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. It is her third novel to be published.
Jules Breton
…In 1912, rue Jules Breton in the 13th arrondissement of Paris was given his name. Willa Cather's 1915 novel The Song of the Lark takes its name from Breton's 1884 painting. In February 2014, actor Bill Murray disclosed at a press event for the film The Monuments Men, that a chance…
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