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I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.

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The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

Jules Breton

Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.

Jules Breton

Jules Breton

Jules Breton

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Born: May 1, 1827

Died: July 5, 1906 (aged 79)

Bio: Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French Realist painter.

Known for:

The Song of the Lark (1884)
Calling in the Gleaners (1859)
The Flax Spinner (1872)
The Weeders

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