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Breton Women at a Pardon
Breton Women at a Pardon (French: Les Bretonnes au Pardon) is an 1887 oil on canvas by the French academic painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. It shows seven women sitting on grass in a churchyard waiting for a ceremony to begin. The painting is composed from somber tones and the women have a serene calmness and a demeanour described as the embodiedness of "simplicity and piety". 
The women are dressed in traditional Breton costume which in the late 19th century would have been reserved for
in that painting of yours which Gauguin has, those Breton women walking in a meadow so beautifully composed, the colour with such naive distinction." Gauguin made a work, Breton Women at a Pardon which was may have been inspired by Bernard's work of Breton women.
Copy after Virginie Demont Breton.
Van Gogh painted a work of the engraving "Man at Sea" made by Virginie Demont-Breton, daughter of Jules Breton. Her engraving was exhibited at the Salon of 1889. The picture depicts, almost