Paul Gauguin, French, (1848-1903), works include: The Swineherd, Brittany, La Barriere and Cochon sauvage, tahitienne, réunion nocturne. Gauguin was one of the leading French painters of the Post-impressionist period. Later, Gauguin adapted a less naturalistic style, which he called synthetism, characterized by the use of large flat areas of non-naturalistic color. During several trips to Tahiti, he took every opportunity to study Tahitian old culture and tried to resurrect it in his paintings.
Numa François Gillet, France (1868-1940), works include: La gardienne de cochons. Gillet was a French painter, ceramicist and architect/designer of the Symbolist movement. He was a student of Tony Robert-Fleury and Bouguereau in Paris. Gillet designed villas in the style of the Merovingian dynasty.
Netherlands, (1853-1890) Letter sketch – country road with cottages (1883), pen and ink (discoloured to brown) on cream colored machine-made wove paper 2.6 x 5.3 in. (6.5 x 13.5 cm.) Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Editor’s Note: Here is a close-up of the two pigs in this sketch. Nieuw-Amsterdam is a village in the northeast Netherlands, … Read more
Jean Guennal, England, (b. 1950), works include: A scene from Auray, Brittany. Guennal is a painter in watercolor and gouache. He studied at the Van der Kellen decoration School of Brussels. Guennal and his wife divided their year living in Auray on the Morbihan Gulf and Evian on the shores of Lake Geneva.
Harold Harvey, England, (1874-1941), works include: Feeding Time. Harvey was a painter of the Newlyn School. He specialized in scenes of working class Cornish fishermen, farmers and miners as well as Cornish landscapes. Harvey was married to fellow artist Gertrude Bodinnar.
France, (1818-1879) Femme puisant de l’eau dans un abreuvoir (Woman drawing water from a trough) (ndg.), pen and brown ink and wash with watercolor over graphite on paper 4.4 x 6.1 in. (11.2 x 15.4 cm.) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Editor’s Note: Here is a close up of the pig above: Femme avec … Read more
United States, (1824-1879) French Peasant Woman with Pig (c. 1853), oil on panel 17.3 x 10.8 in. (43.81 x 27.3 cm.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston About the Artist William Morris Hunt, United States, (1824-1879), studied with Couture in Paris and then came under the influence of Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon school. Returning to … Read more
Yvonne Jean-Haffen, France, (1895-1993). works include: Foire au Folgoet, Cour de ferme au pays de Caux and Marché aux cochons. Jean-Haffen was a painter, illustrator and ceramicist. She favored life in Brittany and its culture and much or her work depicted pardons, landscapes, seascapes and rural scenes.
Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim, (1866-1951), works include: Retour du marche and Breton et son cochon. Jossot was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker. He is mainly remembered for his work for the Paris humor and satire journal l’Assiette au beurre where much of his work lampooned the bourgeoisie.
Japan, (1866-1924) Pork-Butcher’s Shop (1891), oil on canvas 14.4 x 11.8 in. (36.5 x 30.0 cm.) National Museum of Japan About the Artist Seiki Kuroda, Japanese, (1866-1924), studied art in Paris after first going there to earn a law degree. In Paris he followed a traditional course of study in Academic art and also discovered … Read more
