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Malestroit main Street. Bretagne

José Veloso Salgado1888 A.D.

Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro

Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro
Coimbra, Portugal

Oil painting on wood (thin board), representing a street of Malestroit, canton of the region of Bretagne. This painting is inserted in his training as a painter, showing a realistic register of the spaces and its people.
In the foreground and in perspective, there are houses on both sides of the street of Malestroit. In the background and cutting with the representation of the houses, was represented, in the middle of the street, a female figure on his back, walking. The sky occupies more than a third of the composition in this painting.
Work with signature, place and date signed in the lower right corner: "Salgado / Malestroit / 7 bre 88".

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  • Title: Malestroit main Street. Bretagne
  • Creator: José Veloso Salgado
  • Date Created: 1888 A.D.
  • Location Created: Machado de Castro National Museum, Coimbra, Portugal
  • Physical Dimensions: 24.5 cm x 19 cm
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: Photo: DGPC/ADF - Photographic Documentation Archive
  • Medium: Oil painting on wood
Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro

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