The Song of the Lark is an 1884 oil on canvas painting by French naturalist artist Jules Breton.

The painting shows a peasant farm girl walking in a field transfixed, listening to birdsong at dawn.

She also declared it her personal favorite painting,[2] saying "At this moment The Song of the Lark had come to represent the popular American artistic taste on a national level.

In Thomas Wolfe's 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel, the protagonist Eugene Gant wins a prize for writing an essay on the painting.

In February 2014, actor Bill Murray said at a press event for the film, The Monuments Men, that a chance encounter with The Song of the Lark at the Art Institute of Chicago helped him in his early career when he was contemplating suicide.