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Retour des Champs (Return from the Fields)

Jules Bastien-Lepage1878

Reading Public Museum

Reading Public Museum
Reading, United States

A painter-etcher who was deeply interested in a naturalistic approach to painting and graphic work, Bastien-Lepage frequently depicted scenes of everyday life in the countryside. He was intimately familiar with such scenes, as he grew up on a farm. In addition to creating naturalistic portraits, the artist recorded rural peasants toiling in the fields in the tradition of Realists Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet. This etching is typical of his favored subject matter, showing a solitary heroic peasant, hand-on-hip with a wooden rake resting on her shoulder following a day's hard labor.

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  • Title: Retour des Champs (Return from the Fields)
  • Creator: Jules Bastien-LePage
  • Date Created: 1878
  • Physical Dimensions: 16.8125"h x 11.875"w (sheet)
  • Publisher: Alfred Cadart, French, 1828-1875
  • Medium: etching
  • Culture: French
  • Credit Line: Museum Purchase
  • Creator Death Date: 1883
  • Creator Birth Date: 1848
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