Subject: Brittany

Ludovic Rodolphe “Rodo” Pissarro (1878-1952), was a French painter and the fourth son of the impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. He worked in oils, tempera, watercolor, gouache, wood engraving, drawing and lithography. With his brothers, he founded the painters group called “Monarro”. He is most remembered today as an art historian, responsible for cataloging the life’s work, notes and correspondences of his father, Camille Pissarro.

Paul-Émile Pissarro, France (1884-1972), works include: Femme garde les porcs. Paul-Émile was a painter and print maker. He was the fifth son of Camille Pissarro. Claude Monet became his teacher and close friend after Camille’s death in 1903. Paul-Émile became an established Post Impressionist, preferring to paint the countryside and especially landscape reflections on calm river waters.

Gustave Popelin, France (1859-1937), works include: Marchands de porcs, Normandy, #1 and #2. Gustave Popelin was a painter, draftsman and photographer. He was the son of enamel painter and poet Claudius Popelin (1825-1892). Gustave Popelin studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and also at the Villa Medicis in Rome. His preferred themes were portraits and historical subjects.

Jane Poupelet, France (1878-1932), works include: Truie couchée. Poupelet was a French sculptor and was the only female member of Rodin’s bande à Schnegg. She created hardy animals and female nudes in soft and sleek shapes. In later life she devoted hemself to graphic work.

Émile Auguste Renault, France, (1870-1938), works include: Famille de Bigoudens, Le Bigouden au cochon, Les petits dormeurs and Rue de Quimper. Renault was an engraver and illustrator and worked in pencil, pastels and dry point. He was also known as: Émile Malo Renault, Malo-Renault and Émile Renault.The frequent subjects of his work are feminine grace and the naivety children. He was also inspired his native St Malo and the people and landscapes of Breton.

Edouard Richard, France (1883-1955/6), works include: Jour de marché à Quimperlé. Richard was an Impressionist painter best known for his landscapes, waterfront scenes and flowers.

Victor-Marie Roussin, France (1812-1903), works include: Les noces de Corentin Le Guerveur et d’Anne-Marie Kerinvel. Roussin was a painter and lawyer. His subjects are almost all of Breton inspiration – landscapes, seascapes and scenes from everyday life rendered with great tenderness.

Victor Joseph Roux-Champion, France (1871-1953), works include: Gardien de porc. Roux-Champion was a painter, watercolorist, printmaker and engraver. He was born Joseph Victor Roux and adopted the pseudonym “Victor Joseph Roux-Champion” to sign his works. It is for his watercolors and printmaking that Roux-Champion is best known.

Louis Roy, France (1862-1907). works include: Paysan gardant ses cochons. Roy was a painter and engraver and professional printer. He was a friend of Paul Gauguin, who invited him to participate in the Exhibition of the Impressionists and painters Synthetists Volpini coffee in 1889 and hired him to pull impressions off Gauguins Noa Noa woodcuts for an alternative look to Gauguins’ own earlier prints.