Market Scene In Quimperlé By Fernand Le Gout-gérard - Brittany

A student at the Collège Collège de Saint-Lô, he became a tax collector, following in his father's footsteps,of the Trésorerie Générale de la Manche. But at the age of 33,he decided to give up his profession for painting. He discoveredConcarneau around 1890 and returned there for over fortyyears. A member of the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts and the PastelSociety of London, he was appointed painter to the Navy in 1900.

He settled permanently in Concarneau in 1903, and his home, the famousfamous villa Ty Ker Moor, became a meeting place for Concarneau painters.Concarneau's painters. He painted markets, fairs and fishing trips.A painter of silhouettes, he sketched women in headdresses and children.He was a favorite with lovers of scenes of daily lifeand picturesque scenes. He painted a great deal of Brittany.He is now one of the best-known painters of the Concarneau group.Concarneau group.