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Breton women with parasols
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Emile Bernard
Breton women with parasols by Emile Bernard renders traditional Breton figures in bold Cloisonnist outlines and flattened colour, a famous painting hand-recreated in oil on canvas.
Description
Description
A composition built on flattened, close-packed shapes asks to be seen at range rather than up close, and this canvas rewards that kind of viewing: the eye settles first on the overall pattern of forms before it separates the individual figures beneath their parasols. Hung at a scale that fills a modest stretch of wall, it holds a room the way a well-placed print of the period never quite manages, because the picture depends on the viewer standing back far enough to let the shapes resolve into rhythm.
About Breton Women with Parasols
The scene itself is unassuming: Breton women in traditional dress, gathered outdoors, sheltering under open parasols whose curved silhouettes punctuate the composition like notes on a stave. Emile Bernard arranges the figures in a pattern-conscious sequence rather than a naturalistic grouping, so the women read almost as a decorative frieze, their forms simplified and their outlines given a graphic weight that owes more to stained glass or woodcut than to academic figure painting.
This belongs to the period when Bernard, working alongside Gauguin in Brittany, helped establish the Cloisonnist approach: bold contour lines enclosing flat, unmodulated planes of colour, with a decorative sensibility that favours expressive arrangement over illusionistic depth. The palette stays close to the muted greens and earthen browns of the Breton countryside, against which the parasols stand out as clean, almost abstract shapes, a device that has helped keep this a famous painting within the Post-Impressionist canon even outside specialist circles.
The hand-painted reproduction
Reproducing it by hand means matching that palette precisely and preserving the drawn quality of the outlines, since a flattened, graphic style shows any softening or blur far more readily than a naturalistic one would. Each hand-painted oil painting reproduction is built up in the same layered manner as the original, so the edges stay crisp, the colour fields stay flat where they should, and the brushwork retains a surface presence that a printed sheet cannot offer.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Arrives ready to hang, gallery-presented
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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