Breton Fishermen and their Families by Ribot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2011

Breton Fishermen and Their Families

Augustin-Théodule Ribot (French, Saint-Nicolas-d'Attez 1823–1891 Colombes)

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (55.2 x 46.4 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948

Accession Number: 48.187.736

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Toward the end of his life, Ribot, who was strongly influenced by seventeenth-century Spanish painters, especially Ribera, brought a vigorous realism and a predilection for contrasting values to the subject of Breton and Norman peasants. Beginning in the 1870s, he painted several group portraits similar to this one.


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