Emma Herland French (1855 -1947) - Concarneau , The Harbour (brittany)

Oil on mahogany panel
Signed lower left
Dimensions: 33 x 23.5 cm With frame: 44.5 x 35 cm
Old label with an exhibition number on the back

Emma Herland, a woman painter sensitive to work centered on Brittany.

Emma Herland, a woman painter specialized in genre painting, her work is characterized by work centered on seascapes, the life of Bretons and interiors. She highlights her artistic qualities, her sensitivity and her mastery of light effects

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`Born in Cherbourg, Emma Herland will make her career in Brittany in Finistère which she discovered when her father, a naval pharmacist, was transferred to Brest. In 1884, she moved to Concarneau, she lived in the town hall square, then on the quay of Aiguillon and villa Kerael on the cornice. Around 1920, she left Concarneau to live in Quimper, where she bought a house at 13 rue Pen ar Steir. She was one of the city's leading figures. Since 1914, she has been a member of the museum's commission. She discovered and learned painting from Georges, Alexandre Fischer, Benjamin Constant, and Jules Lefebvre during her stay in Paris at the Académie Julian in 1887-1888. She will not miss an opportunity to show her works. She exhibits regularly at various Breton salons, in Brest, Rennes, Nantes, Vannes, Saint Brieuc as well as in Laval, Angers, Orléans, Versailles and especially in Paris where she debuted at the Salon des Artistes français in 1879 until 1920. She will be rewarded several times. Ambitious and energetic, she is one of the first female painters to be able to live from her painting, which allowed her to help her sister and her four brothers while remaining single. She will die in Quimper in 1947.

Bibliography: • Emma Herland, woman painter in Brittany, [exhibition catalog], Musée de Pont-Aven, 2009. • Denise Delouche, “Emma Herland, painter in Brittany (1855-1947)”, in Mémoires de la société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Bretagne. SHAB, Vol. 77, 1999.

Museums: • Quimper, • Laval, • Morlaix, • Saint-Brieuc, • Vitré Castle.