Jules Breton’s "Song of the Lark" was deemed the most popular painting in America in a poll conducted in 1934. In this evocative work, a young peasant woman stands silently in the flat fields of the artist’s native Normandy as the sun rises, listening to the song of a distant lark.

The painting was Eleanor Roosevelt’s favorite work of art; it also inspired Bill Murray while he was struggling as an actor in Chicago.

See this beloved work—a highlight of the Art Institute since entering the collection in 1916—now on view in European Art.