Two Girls in Regional Costume
Medium
Oil paint, over graphite, on tan wove paper (discolored), prepared with a textured oil ground
Dimensions
17.9 × 26.5 cm (7 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
229971
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Lalaisse captured the charmingly picturesque costumes of Breton girls for reproduction in the 1844–51 book series Galerie armoricaine: Costumes et vues pittoresques de la Bretagne (Armoricaine Gallery: Costumes and Scenic Views of Brittany), several decades before Paul Gauguin recast similar subjects in his search for the pure and the primitive in the same region.