By Paul Pascal
Located in PARIS, FR
Paul PASCAL Melun, 1867 - Paris, 1945 Oil on panel 24 x 33 cm (30 x 39 cm with the frame) Signed lower left "P. Pascal" Provenance: artist's studio (sale on March 7, 1946 in Drouot ), Parisian private collection
Paul Pascal studied with Albert Maignan. He was a painter of genre, animated landscapes as well as seascapes. He painted Finistère and Cornouaille (Douarnenez, Concarneau, Pont-Aven, Morgat, Sainte-Anne-La-Palud…). He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1894 to 1939. Our painting is a view of Kersaint beach near Landunvez. A couple is standing in the foreground, a man seated and a woman seen from behind. They seem to be resting before returning home, after a day collecting seaweed. Kersaint is the land of Abers and "the coast of legends". It is said that Saint Haude, sister of Saint Tanguy, has been buried in Landunvez, and that her tomb is in great veneration there. This region was rich by sea fertilizers. In the 19th century, more than 2,000 cubic meters of kelp were harvested there every year. Maurice Guillemot in his book "Villégiatures d'artistes" talked about Kersaint in 1897: “It is further than Brest, there at the end of France, an unknown village...
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Late 19th Century French School Paul Pascal Art