Jules-Adolphe-Aim-Louis Breton (1827-1906)
Jeune femme tricotant
signed and dated 'Jules Breton 1873' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 16 in. (57.8 x 41.2 cm.)
Painted in 1873
Provenance
Glen Byam Shaw; sale, Christie's, London, 23 March 1984, lot 94.
Pyms Gallery, London (1984; no. E699).
Private Collection, Australia.
Pyms Gallery, London (1991).
Exhibited
London, Pyms Gallery, Rural and Urban Images, an exhibition of British and French Paintings, 1870-1920, October-November 1984, no. 4.
London, Pyms Gallery, Life and Landscapes in French, British and Irish Paintings at the turn of the Century, May-June 1991, no. 2.
Lot Essay
Annette Bourrut Lacouture will include this painting in her forthcoming Breton catalogue raisonn.