WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART MONDAY 26 May 2025 FROM 6PM

21 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 26 MAY 2025 AT 6PM 10 Augustus Nicholas Burke RHA (1838-1891) OUTSIDE THE CHAPEL, BRITTANY oil on canvas with Milmo-Penny Fine Art label on reverse 24 by 18in. (61 by 45.7cm) Frame Size: 30 by 24 (76.2 by 61cm) Provenance: Private collection, Dublin; Milmo-Penny Fine Art, Dublin, 2006; Private collection Burke was one of the first Irish artists to go to Brittany, arriving there about 1875, and was working in Pont-Aven at the same time as Aloysius O’Kelly. Between 1876 and 1878 he sent fifteen Breton scenes to the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. One of these was a painting entitled At the Chapel Door, Brittany, to which this work is closely related. The same old man, probably a blind beggar, and the young girl, perhaps his daughter, appear in both works in the same costume. In this version, they both kneel in prayer as mass is celebrated in the chapel, his hat beside him on the ground as he leans on his stick. In the second version, the couple stand outside the church doorway. The old man holds out his hat as one of the congregation emerges from the interior. The stonework, dappled light, and subdued colouring are handled in a similar manner in both paintings. In his catalogue, ‘Onlookers in France’, Dr. Julian Campbell points out that: “The setting for the painting is the old chapel of Tremalo, situated in farmland above Pont-Aven. The church was later to be immortalised when Gauguin featured its small wooden crucifix in his painting The Yellow Christ.” Dominic Milmo-Penny***** €5,000-€7,000 (£4,240-£5,930 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot10