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Edmond CHAMPON
born 1879, French
Brittany, Loctudy, La Chapelle Notre-Dame des Croix, pardon scene
Painting, oil on canvas, 1911
Signed lower right
On the back: "Pardon Breton / à la chapelle Sulaire / Finistère / 1911 / Edmond Champon".
Painting: 100.5 x 81 cm
Modern frame: 117.5 x 98 cm (note large format)
Very good condition, one discreet vertical frame mark on the center rail
I found no trace of the Sulaire chapel mentioned on the back of the canvas. On the other hand, it is indeed the Notre-Dame des Croix chapel in Loctudy, a place the painter painted in another picture of similar size in 1910. An old postcard I found on the Internet also shows a Breton pardon at the Notre-Dame des Croix chapel, with the beautiful tree in the foreground.
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