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François Hippolyte Lalaisse

Two Girls in Regional Costume

n.d.
Oil paint, over graphite, on tan wove paper (discolored), prepared with a textured oil ground
17.9 × 26.5 cm (7 × 10.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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.

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