(b. 1823, Saint-Nicolas-d'Attez, d. 1891, Colombes)
Breton Fishermen and Families
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Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ribot was one of the founders of the Salon du Champs de Mars, along with Alphonse Legros, Henri Fantin-Latour, and James McNeill Abbott Whistler. Like these artists, Ribot shared an admiration for Gustave Courbet and Realism.
