Les Bretonnes au Pardon
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| Les Bretonnes au Pardon |
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| Pascal Adolphe Dagnan-Bouveret , 1887 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 125 × 141 cm |
| Museu Calouste Gulbenkian |
Les Bretonnes au Pardon is a painting by the French painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret from 1887. The picture was created at the height of naturalism in Brittany , whose rural life was in the focus of many artists at the time the work was created.
Shown is a scene of a procession typical of Brittany with the request for forgiveness, the pardon . Dagnan-Bouveret first recorded the scene in Rumengol photographically and made the painting on this basis in the studio.
The picture with the dimensions 125 × 141 cm is in the possession of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon.
literature
- Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Album. - Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2001, p. 169
- Maria Helena Soares Costa, Maria Luísa Sampaio: Pintura. - Lisbon, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, 1998, pp. 152-157
- Gabriel Weisberg: Making it natural: Dagnan-Bouveret's constructed composition for the salon of the 1880's. in: Scottish Art Review, Glasgow, 1982, pp. 7-15