gandalf1202: Jules Breton – The Weeders [1868] on Flickr.This…
Jules Breton – The Weeders [1868] on Flickr.
This is a smaller variant of Breton’s painting The Weeders of 1860 (Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska), which was widely admired at the Salon of 1861 and the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Breton wrote in his autobiography that one evening in the fields near his native village of Courrières in northern France he had come across this twilight scene of peasants pulling up “thistles and weeds … their faces haloed by the pink transparency of their violet hoods, as if to venerate a fecundating star.” It had presented itself to him as a “finished picture,” completed even as far as “the breadth of the lines, intensity of the effect, character, richness and simplicity.”
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York – Oil on canvas, 71.4 x 127.6 cm]
I love the young moon.
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/56223618936.
