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Wedding Feast in Brittany
Presented by P.M. Turner 1935
adults
architecture
Brittany
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
clothing and personal items
cooking
countries and continents
crowd
domestic
dress: nations/regions
drinking
eating
eating and drinking
field
France, Brittany
groups
hat, bonnet
landscape
leisure and pastimes
Locmiquel
man
marriage
natural phenomena
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people
places
sex and relationships
smoke
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painting oil paint canvas
Wedding Feast in Brittany
support: 895 × 1308 mm
Presented by P.M. Turner 1935
<p><b>Jean Frélaut</b><span> 1879-1954 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/frelaut-wedding-feast-in-brittany-n04797" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04797</span></a> </span><b>Repas de Noce en Bretagne</b><span>
(Wedding Feast in Brittany) 1908 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Jean Frelaut. 1908' b.l.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 51 1/2 (89.5 x 130.5)</span>
<br/><span>Presented by Percy Moore Turner 1935</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Percy Moore Turner, London (purchased from the artist through the Galerie Barbazanges)</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
Salon de Ia Société Nationale, Paris, April-June 1909 (453) as 'Repas de Noce en Bretagne'; </span><i>Jean Fr</i><span>é</span><i>laut</i><span>, Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, April 1912 (27) as 'Repas de Noce'; </span><i>Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Jean Fr</i><span>é</span><i>laut</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, October 1933 (65) as 'Noce de Bretagne' </span>
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<p><span>This was painted in the artist's studio at Vannes (Morbihan) and represents a country wedding in the neighbourhood of Vannes, close to the sea, in the village of Locmiquel. (The artist in letter of 3 April 1953). </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.226, reproduced p.226</span>
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adults architecture Brittany cities, towns, villages (non-UK) clothing and personal items cooking countries and continents crowd domestic dress: nations/regions drinking eating eating and drinking field France, Brittany groups hat, bonnet landscape leisure and pastimes Locmiquel man marriage natural phenomena objects people places sex and relationships smoke society townscapes / man-made features tree village woman work and occupations