Two Girls in Regional Costume
François Hippolyte Lalaisse
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.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
