Pardon in Brittany

Inscriptions

Signed lower left: G. La Touche

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Works by the Members of the “Société des peintres et des sculpteurs”, January 4–26, 1912, cat. 87. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 282. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting, November 17, 1979–March 16, 1980, cat. 112; traveled to Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 25–September 1, 1980.

Publications

Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 197, no. 2092. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 210, no. 2130. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 161. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 185. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 255. Stuart Preston, “Old Wine into New Bottles: Reflections on Post-Impressionism,” Apollo 111, 215 (1980), p. 52. Selina Baring Maclennan, Gaston La Touche: A Painter of the Belle Époque Dreams (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club, 2009), pp. 137–39, 206, pl. 113. Thomas B. Cole, “About the Cover: Pardon in Brittany,” Journal of the American Medical Association 306, 17 (2011), p. 1836, cover ill.

Quick Overview

Artist: Gaston La Touche (French, 1854–1913)
Date: 1896
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100.5 × 110.5 cm (39 9/16 × 43 1/2 in.); Framed: 123.2 × 129.5 × 12.7 cm (48 1/2 × 51 × 5 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on canvas
Style: nineteenth century
Place: France
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Accession no.: 1933.1130

Provenance

Victor Harris, New York, by January 1912 [lent to Art Institute of Chicago 1912]. Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, by April 18, 1912 [according to a receipt in the Ryerson Papers, Art Institute Archives]; on intermittent loan to the Art Institute from 1913 [see Art Institute of Chicago 1913]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.