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[Song of the lark] – Antique Wall Art

[Song of the lark], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Song of the lark], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Rather than a crowd at work, this picture shows a single young woman standing in a wheat field, sickle in hand, pausing to listen to a lark overhead. It is a photograph of a painting signed by Jules Breton, the French artist who spent much of his career recording the lives of peasant farmers around Courrières in northern France. Breton's idealized but carefully observed harvest scenes were widely admired in Europe and the United States in the late nineteenth century. The Detroit Publishing Company made this reproduction between about 1900 and 1920, carrying the painting's quiet meditation on rural labor to a broader public.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 7 x 5 in.
NotesTitle from negative D416-388. Title on jacket: Reaper. Photograph of a painting signed Jules Breton
SubjectsWomen--Employment. Harvesting.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan717 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76775

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