Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1827-1906) was a 19th-century French naturalist painter.
His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make him one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
He was one of the best known painters of his period in his native France as well as England and the United States.
Jules-Breton | The Song of the Lark, 1884 | Art Institute of Chicago