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1884 · Art Institute of Chicago

The Song of the Lark

Jules BretonWikidata

painting by Jules Adolphe Breton

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Date
1884Wikidata
Art Institute of Chicago: 1884
Medium
Oil on canvasArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
110.6 × 85.8 cmArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: 110.6 × 85.8 cm
Gallery
Gallery 222Art Institute of Chicago
Materials
oil paint, canvasWikidata
Inventory no.
1894.1033Wikidata
Credit line
Henry Field Memorial CollectionArt Institute of Chicago

Provenance

Where it has been

  1. 1916 –
    Art Institute of Chicago
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Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago

Paris, Salon, 1885, cat. 369. Chicago, Worlds Columbian Exhibition: Loan Collection: Foreign Masterpieces Owned in the United States, 1893, no. 3047. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, An Exhibition of Literature and Poetry in Painting Since 1850, January-February, 1933, cat. 8 (ill.). Los Angeles Art Association, The Song of the Lark by Jules Breton Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, March 1935, no cat. Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, June 1935, no cat. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Gay Nineties Exhibition, Fall 1950. Denver Art Museum, Spring Quarterly Exhibition: Man at Work, March 2-April 27, 1952, no cat. Los Angeles, Municipal Art Gallery, Old Favorites Revisited, October 6-November 8, 1959. Muskegon, Hackley Art Gallery, November 1-30, 1955. Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts (Smithsonian Institution), American Art in the Barbizon Mood, January 23-April 20, 1975, cat. 1 (ill.). Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, November 6, 1982-January 2, 1983, cat. 39 (ill.), traveled to Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, January 16-March 6, 1983 and Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, April 2-June 5, 1983. Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1985 cat. 12 (ill.), traveled to Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5-February 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986. Norfolk, Va., Chrysler Museum, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, September 29-December 17, 1989, no cat. no. (ill.); Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, February 1-April 15, 1990; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, May 6-July 15; New York Historical Society, September 5-November 15, 1990. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream A World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago 1893-1993, November 1-January 9, 1994, no cat. no., figs. 10, 11, pl. 5. Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, April 20-May 29, 1994, cat. 10 (ill.), traveled to Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10-July 1994 and Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6-September 25, 1994. Yamanahsi Prefectural Museum, Return to Nature: J.F. Millet, the Barbizon Artists, and the Renewal of the Rural Tradition, September 26-December 12, 1998, cat. VI-6 (ill.). Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras, Jules Breton: La chanson des blés, March 16-June 2, 2002, cat. 95 (ill.), traveled to Quimper, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts, June 15-September 8, 2002 and Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, September 23-December 15, 2002, fig. 175 (cat. 95). Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France, November 6, 2007—March 23, 2008, no. 4 (ill.), fig. 37. Lincoln, Nebraska, Sheldon Museum of Art, Visual Cather: The Writer's Pictorial Imagination, May 19-August 30, 2015, no cat. Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Coming Away: Winslow Homer in England, November 11, 2018-February 4, 2018 and Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, March 1-May 20, 2018.
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