Street in Pont Aven
Maker
(Artists)
1864-1950
1864-1950
Title
Street in Pont Aven
Date of Production
1886
Medium
medium : material : oil; support : material : canvas
Dimensions
Height: 33 cm (canvas)
Width: 61 cm (canvas)
Width: 61 cm (canvas)
Accession Number
P.2000.XX.5
Mode of Acquisition
Vea Black, gift, 2000
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
In his memoirs, the Scottish artist Hartrick described Pont-Aven as a place of ‘dramatic strangeness … peopled by a savage-looking race’. He spent the summer and autumn of 1886 painting bleak corners of this Breton village in a drab palette. Here, he shows a woman and two young children walking along a muddy road.
Hartrick was fascinated by the headdress worn by Breton women. Yet he was determined to depict them in a manner which did not idealise their hard lives in this isolated settlement.
Hartrick was fascinated by the headdress worn by Breton women. Yet he was determined to depict them in a manner which did not idealise their hard lives in this isolated settlement.
Provenance
Gift of Miss Vea Black 2000
Exhibition History
English Painters in Brittany, Musée de Pont-Aven, Pont-Aven, France, 26/06/2004-27/09/2004
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