Breton Peasant Woman

Roger Bezombes, artist

1913–1994

Breton Peasant Woman, 1900s

Where object was made: France

Material/technique: oil; canvas

Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 66.7 x 31.1 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 26 1/4 x 12 1/4 in

Credit line: Gift of Morris Sprayregen in honor of Dr. A.M. Ginsberg

Accession number: 1955.0068

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This painting shows a peasant woman from Brittany (Breton in French), a cultural region in Northern France. She holds a child on her shoulder and gazes ahead with a serious expression. Behind her, smaller figures sit before a beach where a boat rests on the sandy shore.

Muralist and painter Roger Bezombes frequently depicted landscapes and figures in his vividly colored works. He employed swaths of flat color to produce work that fell somewhere between painterly and illustrative and retained evidence of the brush in his paintings, resulting in rich textures.