Another Barbizon mosaic

Tuesday
Bible study this morning, continuing our Beth Moore study of the Book of Esther. My route home takes me close to the artists village of Barbizon, so I made a slight detour to photograph another of the mosaics based on paintings by artists associated with the "Barbizon school".
This one is Le Laboureur by Jules Jacques Veyrassat. Veyrassat was born in Paris in 1828. He studied in Paris under Lehman and exhibited his first paintings at the Paris Salon in 1848. Jules Veyrassat's career as an original etcher began in the early 1860's and these works of art quickly gained for him an international reputation. In 1878, the French government decorated him with the prestigious Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur. Although associated with the Barbizon movement of painting, it was not the surrounding Forest of Fontainebleau that drew Jules Veyrassat's attention; rather most of his art depicts the farming plains of central France. And it was in this sphere that Veyrassat's true genius developed, particularly in his brilliant depictions of the working horse, as shown here.