Olivier Perrin (sometimes Ollivier), French, (1761–1832), was born in the town of
Rostrenen in Brittany, and retuned to the area to work and teach painting in Quimper after
studying art in Rennes and Paris.
Perrin painted works for area churches and completed an extensive collection of images,
“Breton Gallery,” depicting the life of a Breton farmer from cradle to death.
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drawn by a master... a litter of pigs, satisfies, and is a reality not less than the frescoes of St. Angelo.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, (1841).