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Pardon de St Leger a Riec pres Quimperle, pl. des Scenes de la vie rurale en Bretagne:Francois-Hippolyte Lalaisse (1812-1884) , 23.7 x 34. Originally included in Types et caracteres bretons (Nantes, 1844), republished in 1866 as Scenes de la vie rurale en Bretagne. :A Breton native trained in Paris, Lalaisse published many albums of lithographs in Nantes from 1840 through the 1860s. Some are devoted to horses and military costumes, and others to local Breton dress, customs, and types, based on extensive travels in Brittany undertaken in 1843 and 1844. The most notable albums are Types et caracteres bretons, La Bretagne, choix de costumes, sujets de moeurs, scenes pittoresques et traits de caractere, both of 1844, and Galerie Amoricaine, costumes et vues pittoresques de la Bretagne (in collaboration with Felix Benoist), 1845-46. These lithographs parallel the romantic interest in picturesque Brittany manifested in travel literature and novels, but with a somewhat more neutral or documentary flavor that partook of the rising vogue for ethnographic documentation and popular culture. Unlike Perrin, Lalaisse did not attempt an all-encompassing portrait of Breton life but favored weddings, pardons, festivals, and other scenes of the better-off peasantry while avoiding images of misery and hard labor. His vision fulfilled bourgeois desires for scenes of a prosperous if quaint province.::3. Pardon de St. Leger a Riec, pres Quimperle (Finistere), 1844/1866.:Two-color lithograph with highlights in white chalk, 23.7 x 34. Originally included in Types et caracteres bretons (Nantes, 1844), republished in 1866 as Scenes de la vie rurale en Bretagne. :Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Jean C. Harris Fund.::"Pardons," a distinctive feature of Brittany, were annual religious festivals when the faithful sought special blessings for themselves, and when animals and crops were also blessed. Parishioners took part in religious processions and rituals and also gathered for markets
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