Jules Breton
GARDEUSE DE DINDONS (THE TURKEY TENDER), 1864
oil on canvas
32 1/2 by 40 in. (82.6 by 101.6 cm.)
Provenance
M. Cahusac (probably sale, Drouot, Paris, 1887)Private Collection, New York (and sold, Sotheby’s: New York, October 24, 1996, lot 25, illustrated)
Private Collection, Minneapolis (acquired at the above sale)
Exhibitions
Paris, Salon de 1864, No. 257Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1867, No. 87
Williamstown, Massachusetts, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, July 2014 – August 2018
Literature
Jules Breton, Un Peintre Paysan: Souvenirs et Impressions, Paris, 1896, p. 123Marius Vachon, Jules Breton, Paris, 1899, pp. 107-108, illustrated opp. p. 108
Hollister Sturges, Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, Omaha, 1982, pp. 132-133
Annette Bourrut Lacouture, Jules Breton: Painter of Peasant Life, New Haven and London, 2002, pp. 120-122, illustrated p. 175