Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
Artists who have considered the pigs of Brittany in north-west of France.
Joseph-Félix Bouchor, France, (1853-1937), works include: Le marché aux cochons d’Auray. Bouchor was an illustrator and painter. He was embedded with allied troops during World War I. After the war, Bouchor travelled and painted extensively in France and North Africa.
Claude Charles Bourgonnier, France, (ca. 1860-1921), works include: Tueur de cochons. Bourgonnier was a painter and lithographer. He focused on portrait and genre painting and his lithographs depicted scenes of Spain and episodes of WWI.
Lucy Scott Bower, American, (1864-1934) – Pig Market, Dinan, (1928), oil on canvas.
Jules Breton, French (1827-1906), works include: Breton Laundresses at Douarnenez and Evening in the Hamlet of Finistere. Breton was a Realist painter of rustic life focusing on scenes of labour, rest, rural festivals and religious festivals. Breton’s renderings of single peasant female figures in a landscape, posed against the setting sun, were very popular, especially in the United States.
Charles Cartwright, United States, (19th-20th century), works include: Noce bretonne au Faouët. Cartwright was a painter from the United States. He studied and painted in France and also lived in Massachusetts.
Emile Claus, Belgium, (1849-1924) – Le verger au printemps (The orchard in Spring). Claus, influenced by Claud Monet, developed a style that has been characterized as luminism, a late-impressionist style of painting which devotes great attention to light effects.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, France, (1796-1875) – art works include: Gardeuses de Porce (The Swineherders) and Saint-André-en-Morvan. Corot was a painter who specialized in landscapes and worked in both romantic and realistic styles. Corot’s work is generally considered the forerunner of the impressionistic style. Corot did not idealize, he preferred to represented nature realistically and in doing so brought a new and personal style to the Classical traditions of the composed landscape.
Charles Cottet, French, (1863-1925) – works include: Vente des porcs [Sale of pigs]. Cottet was a painter and printmaker and is best known for his forceful and firmly designed scenes of life on the Brittany coast and the ordinary lives of the Breton people.
Canada, (1868-1932) Truffle Hunters (20th century), aquatint in color 7.4 x 10.3 in. (18.7 x 26.1 cm.) California State Library About the Artist John Wesley Cotton, Canadian, (1868-1932). John Cotton was a painter and etcher born in Toronto, Canada. He attended the Chicago Art Institute and studied art in London in 1911 with E. Marsdon … Read more
France, (1819-1877) The Little Swine-Maiden (c. 1849), oil on canvas 59.5 x 51.6 in. (151 x 131 cm.) E.G. Buhrle Foundation Collection, Zurich The Peasants of Flagey Returning from the Fair, Ornans (cc. 850 – 55), oil on canvas 101.2 x 80.7 in. (257 x 205 cm.) Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon About the Artist Gustave … Read more