Portrait Of Vagabond Peddler Breton Brittany By Victor Ménard

Portrait of a wanderer or peddler like many traveling the Breton countryside around 1880-1900 and who exchanged a Quimper earthenware bowl for a few rabbit or fox tails.
Annotated on the back Verne .....to be identified
Signed Victor Ménard * lower right.
Probably painted around 1890-1910.
Two other paintings by this painter are posted online.
Dimensions without frame 41cm x 33cm.
To be cleaned, small paint loss to the right of the nose. centre.
Delivery possible by colissimo or chronopost for:
France €25
Europe €45
Others €60
*Victor Pierre Ménard is a student of Gabriel Guay, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Henri-Lucien Doucet and Luc-Olivier Merson.
He lives in Paris. He regularly exhibited Breton landscapes, interiors and popular types at the Salon des artistes français from 1894; he obtained a mention in 1923.
He also exhibited at the Winter Salon from 1923 to 1937.
His last known residence is 18, rue Chabrol in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
source Bénézit.