Once heralded by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt as “America’s Best Loved Picture,” this painting by Jules Adolphe Breton (1884) made the cover of Willa Cather’s novel of the same name.
Many decades later, the sight of a peasant woman in a field at sunrise also inspired a young struggling actor, Bill Murray, to keep moving forward.
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Jules Adolphe Breton
CC0 Public Domain Designation
Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago
From the first edition
More about the artist and the painting at The Art Institute of Chicago.
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