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Two Girls in Regional Costume

A work made of oil paint, over graphite, on tan wove paper (discolored), prepared with a textured oil ground.
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  • A work made of oil paint, over graphite, on tan wove paper (discolored), prepared with a textured oil ground.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

François Hippolyte Lalaisse
French, 1810-1884

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

François Hippolyte Lalaisse

Title

Two Girls in Regional Costume

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1830–1884

Medium

Oil paint, over graphite, on tan wove paper (discolored), prepared with a textured oil ground

Dimensions

17.9 × 26.5 cm (7 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Elizabeth Gott Templeton Fund

Reference Number

2015.358

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