The Family of Jean-le-Boîteux, Peasants from Plougasnou (La Famille de Jean-le-Boîteux, paysans de Plougasnou, Finistère)

Jules Bastien-Lepage first showed Haymaking (Les Foins) at the Paris Salon of 1878 (fig. 5).See William Steven Feldman, “The Life and Work of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884),” (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1973), 89–106; Marie-Madeleine Aubrun, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1848–1884: Catalogue raisonné de...

This is how Paillot de Montabert defined the term ‘support’ in his major treatise on painting in 1829. Paillot de Montabert 1829, vol. IX, p.io; cf. the definition in Gettens and Stout 1966, p. 258. The most typical supports for easel painting in the nineteenth century were canvas, panel, paper...