In Brittany

This is a work executed in Brittany which reveals some details of sentimental character, in a melancholic atmosphere, of mists and mists with which Sousa Pinto usually involves his compositions realized in this place.
The young woman, who sits on the land next to a cliff, looks sad and nostalgic to the water, holding something in the skirt of her dress.
Sousa Pinto is a distinguished painter connected to the first Portuguese naturalism and one of the best interpreters of the region of Brittany, where he lived with his family and for which he fell in love. He did not follow the avant-garde currents. He was faithful to the values of his formation, to the taste of sentimental narratives of life, to record beautiful countryside and seaside landscapes, everyday life, costumes and dramas. From his long stays in Portugal his works are expressively luminous.