Terms and conditions of use
Breton family
(c. 1892)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 96.3 × 78.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- France
- Inscription
- inscribed in blue paint l.r.: ISO RAE
- Accession Number
- 2023.2
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family and the June Sherwood Bequest, 2023
© Public Domain - Gallery location
- Gallery 7
Level 2, NGV Australia - About this work
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Breton family captures a quiet, bucolic moment between a mother and her daughters. Iso Rae works characteristically in a French Impressionist manner, employing visible brushwork and a high-keyed palette which evocatively convey the effect of dappled sunlight. Rae’s choice of female sitters is also typical of the artist, emphasising the important bond she shared with her own mother and sister. Rae studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne from 1878 to 1887 and travelled to France in the late 1880s. She studied in Paris, and in 1892 moved to Étaples, a fishing village on the northern coast of France, where she would live for the next forty years.
