IDENTITY
Les champs et la mer
Literature
Work Summary
A poetry collection by the painter Jules Breton devoted largely to rural life, labour, landscape, memory and the changing seasons. Its poems often draw on the same peasant and countryside world that appears in Breton's visual art, while treating it through lyric and narrative verse.
Evidence Summary
He repeatedly recommends Breton's poems and copies verses from the collection.
The painter-poet relationship is explicit in Van Gogh's sustained interest in Breton as both artist and poet.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Jules Breton
Work
Les champs et la mer
Years / Period
1875
Van Gogh Relation
Read, Recommended / Sent, Owned / Had Access To
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
1875 — Letters 34, 60–62 / RM05
Owned / Had Access To · Owned / read / sent
Van Gogh had his own copy of Les champs et la mer, promised it to Theo, lent it out, recovered it, and sent it.
Response: He repeatedly recommends Breton's poems and copies verses from the collection.
Connection: The painter-poet relationship is explicit in Van Gogh's sustained interest in Breton as both artist and poet.
Related Research Nodes
Study Subject
Themes
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