Street in Pont Aven

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Maker


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)

Object Number

P.2000.XX.5

Mode of Acquisition

Vea Black, gift, 2000

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

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.

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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