Fire in a Stack of Wheat

1856

Jules Breton French, 1827-1906

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Fire in a Stack of Wheat

Artwork Date 1856

Artist Jules Breton

Life Dates 1827-1906

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 55 × 82 1/2 inches (139.7 × 209.6 cm) Framed: 62 1/8 × 89 3/4 × 3 1/16 inches (157.8 × 228 × 7.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 76.86

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Signed Signed, lower right: Jules Breton

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Provenance

the artist, Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton

April 1856, acquired by (Ernest Gambart, London, England)

August 2, 1875, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction R.C. Naylor, lot 831

1875, purchased by F.J. Pilgeram

by 1890, Samuel P. Avery, Jr. (New York, New York, USA)

March 20, 1902, sold by S.P. Avery (New York, New York, USA)

1902, purchased by M. Tanenbaum [for $850]

Albert K. Schneider (New York, New York, USA)

October 14, 1953, sold by (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA) lot 84, through Dr. Goetz for [$450]

Loyola University (Los Angeles, California, USA)

April 24, 1972, sold at (Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California)

February 26, 1976, sold by (Christie's, London, England) through Colnaghi

1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Concours pour les prix de Rome Peinture." L'Artiste 27 (1856): p. 193.

"The Exhibition of French Pictures." Art Journal 118 (1856): p. 193.

Third Annual Exhibition of the French School of Fine Arts. Exh. cat., French Gallery at 121 Pall Mall. London, 1856, no. 58.

Salon of 1861. Exh. cat., Palais des Champs-Elysées. Paris, 1861, no. 428, p. 54.

Bellier and Auvray. Dictionnaire des artistes de l'école française. Paris, 1882, vol. 1, p. 164.

Breton, J. The Life of the Artist. New York, 1890, p. 240 (ill.).

Breton, J. Un peintre paysan souveniers et impressions. Paris, 1896, pp. 112.

Thieme-Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler. Leipzig, 1907-1950, vol. 5, p. 590.

Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 56, no. 1 (1977): pp. 23, 27, 50 (fig. 25).

The Figure in 19th Century French Painting. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts, et al. Flint, 1978, pp. 50-51, cat. 18 (ill.).

Avery, Samuel P. The Diaries 1871–1882 of Samuel P. Avery, Art Dealer. New York, 1979, p. xlvi, fig. 55 (ill.).

Beaufort, M.F. "Fire in a Haystack." Bulletin of the DIA 57, no. 1 (1979): pp. 54-63 (ill.).

Weisberg, G.P. "Realists Resurrected." Art Journal 40 (1980) p. 402 (fig. 34).

The Realist Tradition. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art, et al. Cleveland, 1980, cat. 95, pp. 129-130, (ill.).

Weisberg, G.P. and A. Bourrut Lacouture. "Jules Breton's The Grape Harvest at Château-Lagrange." Arts Magazine 55 (1981): pp. 98-103, pp 98, 100 (fig. 4).

Varnadoe, K. "Realism's Second String." Art in America (September 1981): pp. 134-141, pp. 139-140 (ill.).

Brettell, R.R. and C.B. Brettel. Painters and Peasants in the Nineteenth Century. Geneva, 1983, p. 81, (ill.).

Jules Breton and the French Rural Tradition. Exh. cat., Joslyn Art Museum, et al. Omaha, 1982, pp. 13, 17, 26, 66-67, cat. 5 (ill.).

Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 86, 106-107 (ill.).

Jules Breton, Painter of Peasant Life. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts and National Gallery of Ireland. Arras, Quimper, and Dublin, 2002, pp. 94, 239-240, cat. 19 (fig. 54).

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Jules Breton, Fire in a Stack of Wheat, 1856, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 76.86.