Breton Fishermen and Their Families

Théodule-Augustin Ribot

possibly ca. 1880–85 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

Toward the end of his life, Ribot, who was strongly influenced by seventeenth-century Spanish painters, especially Jusepe de Ribera, brought a vigorous realism and a predilection for contrasting values to the subject of Breton and Norman peasants. Beginning in the 1870s, he painted several group portraits similar to this one.

Artist

Théodule-Augustin Ribot

Date

possibly ca. 1880–85

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948