Village Love
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| Artist | Jules Bastien-Lepage |
| Year | 1882 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 194 x 180 |
| Location | Pushkin Museum, Moscow |
Village Love or The Village Lovers (French - L'Amour au village) is an oil on canvas painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage, from 1882. It is held at the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow.[1]
It was acquired in 1885 by Russian art patron Sergei Tretyakov at the posthumous sale of the artist's works at Georges Petit's gallery, in Paris.[2][3] The Musée du Luxembourg had initially been interested in the work, but instead chose Haymaking (later transferred to the Louvre then to the Musée d'Orsay[4][5]). Village Love later entered the State Museum of New Western Art and the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow, in 1948 where it still hangs.[6]
