About this artwork
Lalaisse captured the charmingly picturesque costumes of Breton girls for reproduction in the 1844–51 book series Galerie armoricaine: Costumes et vues pittoresques de la Bretagne (Armoricaine Gallery: Costumes and Scenic Views of Brittany), several decades before Paul Gauguin recast similar subjects in his search for the pure and the primitive in the same region.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- François Hippolyte Lalaisse
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Title
- Two Girls in Regional Costume
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1830–1884
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Medium
- Oil paint, over graphite, on tan wove paper (discolored), prepared with a textured oil ground
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Dimensions
- 17.9 × 26.5 cm (7 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Elizabeth Gott Templeton Fund
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Reference Number
- 2015.358
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/229971/manifest.json