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Jules Breton

Woman Breast Feeding Her Child, Accompanied by Another Woman

1872

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Jules Breton

Woman Breast Feeding Her Child, Accompanied by Another Woman

1872

Physical Qualities Graphite on paper, Sheet: 285 x 233 mm. (28.5 x 23.3 cm.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.18785
Cf. 1996.048.18787 verso for similar figure of woman nursing.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Hollister Sturges, Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition, Omaha, NE: Joslyn Art Museum, 1982, p. 90, no. 33.

Inscribed: RECTO: LR, monogram, graphite, 'JB' VERSO: UL, graphite, '16' in circle

Artist

Jules Breton

1826–1905

French, 1827-1906
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