domingo, 8 de diciembre de 2013
With this Call of Gleaners Jules Breton represents a current scene of peasant life in Courrières , his hometown in Artois . Choose represent the Gleaners , the thin crescent room up on the left, the presence of the ranger , attached to a cairn, calling to collection with hands spokesman , however with the setting sun behind the trees providing the box and the warm golden light of a sunset .
Despite the presence of some more realistic details like the worn and torn clothes and bare feet of women, the painter has completely idealized scene . The nobility of the bids , the haughty bearing of the peasants, the treatment composition frieze provide nobility and poetry, to the set.
Abandoning the representation of the laborious poverty of its inception, the benefit of an idyllic and picturesque view of the working world , Jules Breton favors reviewed and wins public . Presented at the Salon in 1859 , the work has a great success and even the attention of the Empress Eugenie . The latter makes buying civil list of Napoleon III. First presented at the castle of Saint -Cloud , then added , thanks to a donation of the emperor in 1862 , the collections of the Luxembourg Museum , museum for living artists.
