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Breton Wedding
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
From 1909 onwards, Marius Borgeaud repeatedly stayed in Rochefort-en-Terre, Morbihan, in Brittany, and painted many scenes of village life there. He became famous for scenes in the pharmacy and, as here, in the mairie – the town hall. The catalogue raisonné groups together the works set in the same room (Wyder 1999, cat. 101–110); this includes the very similar work "Le Mariage breton" (1913, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Inv. 1973-02, see Wyder 1999, cat. 103). In...
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMariage breton. 1913. Marius Borgeaud (1861–1924). Kunstmuseum Basel, Depositum der Gottfried Keller-Stiftung, Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern. Public domain.
