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Large, handsome oil on canvas depicting a genre scene on the Ile de Ré, more precisely Saint Martin: Les vistes au bagne , the canvas is dated 1923 and signed: MINIER SUZ. pour suzanne Minier a label on the back salon des femmes peintres , the title in pencil on the back of the stretcher, Since 1873, the fort of Saint Martin has been the departure point for convicts to the prisons of New Caledonia and Guyana, the last boats leaving around 1938, with a few departures in the 1950s.
The women are wearing the traditional headdress of the Ile de Ré, the famous Guichenotte! This is the traditional headdress of the Charentes and Poitou regions, worn on the Ile de Ré by oyster breeders to protect them from the sun.
This large painting is presented in good condition, on its original canvas and in its frame (minor accidents will be repaired in our workshop).
the painting measures with the frame 1.55 by 1.10
Ref: 9OTKYA49YF