If you love art, remember to follow DailyArt Magazine on social media: Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Today's painting shows Brittany, off the coast of France, during a feast day of a patron saint, where pilgrims would dress in traditional clothing, seeking forgiveness from the priest (who is seen leading a horse with a woman and child on it) during a pilgrimage called pardons in 1896 in the evening. His primary subjects were working-class Parisians, painted in a depressing style that reflected the influence of the novelist Émile Zola. La Touche asked Manet to take him on as a student, but Manet declined, saying he had nothing to teach him other than to paint what he saw and to use a variety of colors. When he returned to Paris, he opened a studio and spent many evenings at the Café de la Nouvelle-Athènes talking with other painters, such as Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, who were willing to share their knowledge and experience with him. H C Baxter, Illustrated London News, vol 92, no 2559, The Paris Salon, London,, p 477. Selina Baring Maclennan, Gaston La Touche: a painter of Belle Epoque dreams, 2009, pp 24, 29, 189, 193, col illus p 28, pl 11. Pardon in Brittany by Gaston La Touche 1896 Painting. Anon., Sydney Morning Herald, no 15833, Lectures Mr Dickinson at the Art Gallery,, p 11. This was the extent of his formal training in art. All gaston la touche paintings ship within 48 hours and include a 30-day money-back guarantee. As a boy he took drawing lessons, which were discontinued when his family moved to Normandy during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Gaston La Touche was born at Saint Cloud, near Paris.
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