Breton Peasant Woman Holding a Taper Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906). , ca. 1869. Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 in. ( x cm). In this image of a woman holding a rosary and candle, Jules Breton conveyed the devotion associated with the people of Brittany, a conservative, religious region of northeastern France. The work is a study for a figure in one of his many paintings of pardons, Brittany’s annual penitential rites in which peasants in traditional dress take part in a procession. Many urban male artists in the nineteenth century perceived Brittany—especially its women, whom they nearly al
Breton Peasant Woman Holding a Taper Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906). , ca. 1869. Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 in. ( x cm). In this image of a woman holding a rosary and candle, Jules Breton conveyed the devotion associated with the people of Brittany, a conservative, religious region of northeastern France. The work is a study for a figure in one of his many paintings of pardons, Brittany’s annual penitential rites in which peasants in traditional dress take part in a procession. Many urban male artists in the nineteenth century perceived Brittany—especially its women, whom they nearly always depicted wearing their distinctive white headdresses—as “primitive,” pious avatars of a culture unspoiled by modern life. European Art ca. 1869
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