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Painting by Jules Breton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Weeders is an oil on canvas painting by Jules Breton, from 1868. It depicts a group of peasant women working the fields of Northern France. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.
The Weeders | |
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Artist | Jules Breton |
Year | 1868 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 71.4 cm × 127.6 cm (28.1 in × 50.2 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Originally a painter of historical scenes, Jules Breton began to shift with time his focus away from historicity to agrarian scenes. One of the paintings produced as a result of this new focus was The Weeders, which Breton painted after observing a group of farmers in his home town of Courrières picking over a field to clear away weeds and thistle.[1]
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