Shop art print and framed art Les foins by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Les Foins was painted in 1877 by the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884). It is on display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris (room 58). Measuring 180 × 195 cm, it is sometimes called Repos dans le champ, or La Fenaison. The painting was presented to the public at the 1878 Salon in Paris. The painting was purchased by the Musée du Luxembourg when Bastien-Lepage's estate was sold in 1885 to the Parisian gallery Georges Petit. The Musée du Luxembourg curators had a choice between L'Amour au village and Les Foins. The latter was finally chosen, and L'Amour au village became part of the collection of paintings of Sergei Tretyakov (ru) and then of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. From 1929 until 1980, The Hays was part of the collections of the Louvre, but in 1980 it was transferred to the Musée d'Orsay, where it remains to this day. The painting depicts peasants, a man and a woman, resting after hard work. The man is lying on the mown grass, his face hidden by a straw hat, which shows his beard but not the top of his face. The young peasant woman is seated, but her pose and the expression on her face express her extreme exhaustion. Note the photographic composition of the painting: the horizon line is quite high, so that most of the canvas is taken up by mown grass and millstones in the background, with the sky visible only on a small strip of canvas. Émile Zola called Bastien-Lepage the grandson of Jean-François Millet and Gustave Courbet, and considered the painting Les [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the naturalism style.

 

« Les foins » is kept at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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