Thatched Cottage Bretonne, Brittany By Ernest Guérin

Large and beautiful watercolor by Ernest Guérin Biography of the artist Ernest Guérin was born in Rennes in 1887. Painter but especially watercolorist and illuminator, this artist remained deeply rooted in the Breton culture has constantly created the dreamed landscapes of the legends of in the old days. The Lilliputian characters of Guérin roam paths strewn with small pebbles whose trees and the cottages that dot them are often gigantic. Between 1913 and 1950 Ernest Guérin painted many watercolors, large sets for the Hotêl Moderne in Rennes (17 quai Lamennais), and in the manner of the altarpieces of the Middle Ages he produces works in triptychs often showing the procession and festivals ancestral Breton. Ernest Guérin died in 1952 in Quiberon.