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Emile Adelard Breton

Emile Adelard Breton (1831 - 1902) was active/lived in France.  Emile Breton is known for Symbolist figure, seasonal landscape, atmospherics.

A French painter born in Courrières, Émile Breton was the brother of Jules Breton, of whom he was a pupil, and began exhibiting at the Salon in 1861. Although Émile Breton was a pupil of his brother, he initially practiced as a self-taught artist, far removed from the academic and then naturalist art of Jules Breton. 

His dreamlike, melancholy style leaves little room for human beings, most often treated as simple silhouettes punctuating the landscapes here and there. "A large part is left to the cloudy, sometimes windy sky." His representations, often nocturnal, are filled with the light of the sky, the setting and rising sun, the moon, sometimes the sea or a pond, a river, creating an atmosphere full of reflections and shadows. 

In particular, he paints autumn and winter, the thaw, snow, the silhouette of trees, thatched cottages and several of his major canvases are linked to atmospheres of orange glow streaking the darkness. Émile Breton's extreme sens   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1346 characters.]  Artist bio

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