1889
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Les Bretonneries: The Return from the Pilgrimage (Le Retour du Pardon) is a 1889 by Émile Bernard, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print shows a group of tired pilgrims walking along a muddy road. Some are bent over, leaning on sticks, while others sit or stumble. In the background, a ship sits in the water near a tree-lined shore, and a distant hill rises under a pale sky. The artist used rough, sketchy lines to show movement and exhaustion, almost like a hurried drawing. The scene feels raw and real, not polished. Next, look up Émile Bernard to see how his style changed over time.
Émile Henri Bernard (French pronunciation: ; 28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne.
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