Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
French 1848–1884
Season of October: The potato gatherers
1878
oil on canvas
180.7 x 196.0 cm
Felton Bequest 1928
3678-3

Bastien Lepage, after a promising career in Paris, returned to his native village in north-east France where he began to paint scenes of peasant life that were inspired by the works of Millet. This painting is the second of two harvest scenes.