Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Environs de Pont-Aven (Outskirts of Pont-Aven) c.1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 65 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the late 1880s, Pierre-Auguste Renoir made several visits to Pont-Aven, an artists’ colony in Brittany where Paul Gauguin…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Drame au village, Pont-Aven (Drama in the village, Pont-Aven) 1894 Oil on canvas, 73.4 x 93 cm Private collection A dream-like, symbolic scene in sultry, evocative hues, Paul Gauguin’s Drame au village, Pont-Aven epitomizes the artist’s fascination with…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Calvaire et église de Nizon, près de Pont-Aven (Calvary and Church at Nizon, near Pont-Aven) c.1893 Oil on canvas, 39.4 cm x 47 cm High Museum of Art, Atlanta In 1879 Renoir spent the summer in the home of…
Nizon in Art: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Calvaire et église de Nizon c.1893 High Museum of Art, Atlanta See also: • Bretagne | Cities | France
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Intérieur à Pont-Aven (Inside a Shop in Pont-Aven) 1887 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 55.3 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen For the young Émile Bernard, aged nineteen, 1887 was a year of achievements. Bernard and his…
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Bretons se promenant (Bretons Walking) c.1889–1890 Gouache and watercolor on thin cardboard, 38.7 x 59 cm Private collection Charles Laval studied in the studio of the great academic artist Léon Bonnat and with the history painter Fernand Cormon.…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage de Bretagne, Le moulin David (Landscape in Brittany, The David Mill) 1894 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Just like Cézanne and Van Gogh, Gauguin was convinced that painting should not be limited…
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Paysage (Landscape) 1889–1890 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 54.8 x 46 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Pont-Aven (France)
(1861–1894) The artist’s works: Femmes au bord de la mer 1887–1889 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Paysage de la Martinique 1887 Private collection Paysage de la Martinique 1887–1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Allant au marché 1888 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Autoportrait à l’ami Vincent…
(1868–1941) Émile Henri Bernard The artist’s works: Baigneuses à la vache rouge 1887 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Intérieur à Pont-Aven 1887 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Jeux d’enfants 1888 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Autoportrait au tableau “Baigneuses à la vache rouge” c.1889 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Baigneuses…