Dimensions
14 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.
22 1/4 x 26 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (framed)
Location
William L. & Jane H. Fortune Gallery
Credit line
Samuel Josefowitz Collection of the School of Pont-Aven, through the generosity of Lilly Endowment Inc., the Josefowitz Family, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Cornelius, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Betley, Lori and Dan Efroymson, and other Friends of the Museum
Accession number
1998.178
Provenance (back to top)
Possibly (Amboise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris).{1} (Galerie La Cave, Paris) by 1978;{2} Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, in 1978;{3}acquired as a partial gift, partial purchase by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1998 (1998.178).
Gallery Label (back to top)
The Pont-Aven artists often painted aspects of daily life in Brittany. In this animated scene, a couple rides to market in a wagon, as strong winds lift the woman's white collar and threaten to toss the bystander's hat.
Laval, whose profile appears in the adjacent canvas by Gauguin, painted this image during the pivotal summer of 1888, when Gauguin and Bernard developed their Pont-Aven style. The arbitrary use of bright red and green in the flattened background, and the dark borders outlining the figures, demonstrate his mastery of their new decorative approach.
