Stanhope Alexander Forbes, R.A. (1857-1947)

Breton Fisherman

細節

Stanhope Alexander Forbes, R.A. (1857-1947)
Breton Fisherman
oil on panel
12 x 10½ in. (30.5 x 26.6 cm.)
Painted in 1891

來源

Private Collection, Brittany, from whom purchased by the present owner.

拍品專文

The present work was painted during Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes's painting trip to Brittany in the summer of 1891. Forbes met up with a favourite Breton model on the trip, 'le père Bidon', a jolly, bronzed old sailor, who appears in several paintings over that summer.

We are very grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.