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Lot Essay
Elève d'Alfred Roll et de Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Cottet s'installe en Bretagne où le quotidien des paysans l'inspire particulièrement. Cette oeuvre dont la facture et le sujet sont assez classiques, est l'un des derniers témoignages du style de Pont-Aven avant que ces artistes ne rompent avec toute forme d'académisme. C'est en effet au cours de la même année, soit en 1889, que Sérusier exécute Le Talisman et pose les bases de l'esthétique nabi.
Pupil of Alfred Roll and of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Cottet settled in Brittany where he was particularly inspired by the local farmers' daily life. Compositionally, Marché aux cochons remains grounded in tradition and as such is a testamony of the Pont-Aven style just before the artists broke with all forms of traditional representation. Indeed, it was in this same year that Sérusier painted Le Talisman, which established the basic principles of the Nabi esthetic.
Pupil of Alfred Roll and of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Cottet settled in Brittany where he was particularly inspired by the local farmers' daily life. Compositionally, Marché aux cochons remains grounded in tradition and as such is a testamony of the Pont-Aven style just before the artists broke with all forms of traditional representation. Indeed, it was in this same year that Sérusier painted Le Talisman, which established the basic principles of the Nabi esthetic.