A Street in Brittany

Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947)

1881

Oil on canvas

H 104.2 x W 75.8 cm

Collection: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Accession number: WAG 509

"One of the first results of the visit to Cancale was a composition of figures in a narrow street: women in white coiffes and blue petticoats, grouped round their cottages and seated on their doorsteps engaged in their everlasting occupation of knitting blue jerseys for their fisher husbands (Birch 22). [Commentary continues below.]

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