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The Beautiful Countryside of Brittany: View of Kermarie (Le Beau Pays de Bretagne: Le Trieux à Kermarie)

The Beautiful Countryside of Brittany: View of Kermarie (Le Beau Pays de Bretagne: Le Trieux à Kermarie)

1912
(French, 1864–1951)
Sheet: 41 x 56 cm (16 1/8 x 22 1/16 in.); Image: 22.9 x 35.4 cm (9 x 13 15/16 in.)
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Catalogue raisonné: Fields p. 79, plate 15
Location: not on view

Description

In 1896, Rivière and his wife moved into their newly completed summer home in Brittany. He selected the location for the house on a high cliff overlooking the sea. Views from great heights, overlooking inlets populated by sailboats, recur throughout his oeuvre from that time onward. After the turn of the century, Rivière continued to make color lithographs celebrating the countryside of Brittany. View of Kermarie and The Port of Ploumanac’h (elsewhere in this gallery) are among of the artist’s final lithographic views of Brittany.
  • [Haytay-Stratton, 1984]
  • Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/15/04-11/14/04. "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century". No exhibition catalogue.
  • {{cite web|title=The Beautiful Countryside of Brittany: View of Kermarie (Le Beau Pays de Bretagne: Le Trieux à Kermarie)|url=false|author=Henri Rivière|year=1912|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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