The Shepherd’s Star
The Shepherd’s Star
Artist
Jules Breton
(French, 1827-1906)
Place of OriginFrance
Date1887
DimensionsPainting: 40 1/2 × 31 in. (102.9 × 78.7 cm)
Frame: 53 1/4 × 44 3/4 × 5 1/2 in. (135.3 × 113.7 × 14 cm)
Frame: 53 1/4 × 44 3/4 × 5 1/2 in. (135.3 × 113.7 × 14 cm)
Mediumoil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineGift of Arthur J. Secor
Object number
1922.41
Not on View
Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 41, April 1922, repr.
Godwin, Blake-More, Catalogue of European Paintings, Toledo, 1939, p. 210, repr. 211.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 30, pl. 266.
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Robertson, Bruce, Reckoning with Winslow Homer: his late paintings and their influence, Cleveland, 1990, p. 57, fig. 53.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 266, repr. (col.).
Lemonedes, Heather, Paul Gauguin : Paris, 1889, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2009, pp. 35, 40, repr. (col.).
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid, Heroínas, March-June, 2011, cat. 10, p. 24, repr. (col.) p. 134.
Exhibition HistoryParis, Salon, 1888, no. 374.Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, 1912, no. 162, repr.
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art; Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum; St, Louis, St. Louis Art Museum; Glasgpw, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, The Realist Tradition, 1980-1982, no. 204, repr.
Glasgow, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Scotland. 1981.
Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Jules Breton: painter of peasant life 2002, no. 102, p. 209, 219, n. 55, 249, fig. 176 (col.).
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Paul Gaugin: Paris, 1889, Oct. 2009 - June 2010, cat. 27, p. 35, repr. (col.) p. 40.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid, Heroínas, March-June, 2011, cat. 10, p. 24, 292, repr. (col.) p. 134.
Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart
1864, published 1868
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