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Émile Bernard — Les Bretonneries: Breton Women Making Haystacks (Bretonnes Faisant les Foins)
Émile Bernard

Les Bretonneries: Breton Women Making Haystacks (Bretonnes Faisant les Foins)

1889

Agricultural labor becomes artistic subject in Bernard's zincograph of Breton women at work, demonstrating the artist's interest in depicting authentic rural life rather than romanticized pastoral scenes.

Medium
zincograph

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Émile Bernard, Les Bretonneries: Breton Women Making Haystacks (Bretonnes Faisant les Foins), 1889

Agricultural labor becomes artistic subject in Bernard's zincograph of Breton women at work, demonstrating the artist's interest in depicting authentic rural life rather than romanticized pastoral scenes.

Medium
zincograph
Year
1889
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

French, Women, Figures, Breton, Labor, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Earth Tones, 1889, Zincograph

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