Two Girls in Regional Costume
n.d.
François Hippolyte Lalaisse French, 1810-1884
France
Lalaisse captured the charmingly picturesque costumes of Breton girls for reproduction in the 1844–51 book series Galerie armoricaine: Costumes et vues pittoresques de la Bretagne (Armoricaine Gallery: Costumes and Scenic Views of Brittany), several decades before Paul Gauguin recast similar subjects in his search for the pure and the primitive in the same region.
Oil paint, over graphite, on tan wove paper (discolored), prepared with a textured oil ground