Subject: Brittany

Paul Ruty, France (1863-?), works include: Jour de marché aux cochons dans la région de l’Aven. Ruty was a painter.

Louis Remy Sabattier, France (1863-1935), works include: The Saint-Nicolas Fair in Evreux. Sabattier was a painter and illustrator, best known for his work at the newspaper l’Illustration, his illustrations depicting the early days of motoring and his seascape paintings.

United States, (1856-1925) Ilex Wood at Majorca with Blue Pigs (1908), oil on canvas 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.2 cm.) Mitchell Museum Three Pigs and a Portrait (1886), pen and ink on paper 4.8 x 7.6 in. (12.2 x 19.3 cm.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston About the Artist John Singer Sargent, United … Read more

Noel Saunier, France (1847-1890), works include: Le gardien de cochon. Saunier was a painter, illustrator and poster artist. His first comercial success came from Belle Epoque images of stylish women, later, he changed to plein air painting in the French countryside.

Paul Serusier, France (1863-1927), works include: Les porcelets, Bretonne donnant à manger aux cochons and Danse bretonne. Serusier was perhaps more of a Post-Impressionist and Nabis theorist than a painter. Originally a student of philosophy, Serusier decided to become an painter and painted with Paul Gauguin in Brittany. In later life Serusier became deeply interested in concepts of religious symbolism and sacred proportions.

Michel Adrien Servant, France (1885-1949), works include: Marche aux cochons Valognes, Les paysans au marché aux cochons, Une Promenade À La Foire Aux Cochons and Menu de Banquet. Servant studied at L’Ècole Estienne, in Paris as an assistant to the painter Frank Brangwyn. Servant’s career did not develop until the 1920s, working from Cherbourg in Normandy, he fulfilled numerous community commissions.

Pierre Sevaistre, France (1879-1949), works include: On tue le porc à la ferme. Sevaistre was a painter. He was a student of Luc-Olivier Merson at the l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He served in the French military in WWI and was wounded by shrapnel, loosing the use of his right hand, but after the war he continued to paint left handed.

Emile Joseph Jules Simon (1890-1976), works include: Scène de marché à Pont-Croix. Simon was a painter. Simon was inspired by the Breton landscape and people in their traditional and daily activities. Simon lived most of his life in the mansion Squividan to Clohars-Fouesnant (Finistère) with the painter-artist Madeleine Fié-Fieux and her husband. Financially secure, Simon did not sell any of his paintings, all stayed at Squividan until his death.

Lucien Simon, French (1861-1945), works include: Le Menhir de Plozevet and La mort du cochon. Simon was a plein air (outdoor) artists who painted subjects in Brittany and Northern France. He worked in oils and watercolors with a realist approach. His landscape settings and peasant scenes were intimate, not glamorized or exaggerated. He as part of the ‘La Bande Noire’, or less often ‘the Nubians’, group of painters.

United States, (1870-1919) Le repas des cochons [The pig’s meal] (19-20th century), oil on canvas 85 x 73 in. (215.9 x 185.4 cm.) Private collection About the Artist Arthur Watson Sparks, United States, (1870-1919), had early training in the field of architecture and not until the end of the nineteenth century did he begin to … Read more