Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec
One of the leading artists of a group called the Nabis ("Prophets"), Denis rejected naturalism and materialism out of desire to return spirituality to art. His imaginative compositions emphasize flat, decorative shapes and abstract colors. This painting depicts an annual procession in a small village in Brittany held on the feast day of Saint-Jacques. Young women dressed in white lead the procession; they are followed by married women wearing black and carrying a religious icon.
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Details
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- unframed: height 0.559 m, width 0.464 m; framed: height 0.676 m, width 0.587 m, depth 0.063 m
- Origin
- France
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
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Related to Religion Metadata · 100%
The museum identifies the scene as an annual procession held on the feast day of Saint-Jacques, with participants carrying a religious icon.
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Crowds Visual · 98%
A large number of figures are gathered closely together across the middle and foreground of the composition.
Styles and Movements
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Figurative Art Visual · 100%
The painting depicts numerous recognizable human figures participating in a shared procession.
Visual Qualities
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Flatness Visual · 97%
Figures and landscape forms are simplified into broad, outlined areas with limited modeling and shallow spatial recession.
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Dense Composition Visual · 98%
Overlapping figures, garments, foliage, and ground forms fill most of the canvas, producing a tightly packed composition.
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Dark Colors Visual · 95%
Deep green, navy, and near-black passages are prominent throughout the figures and surrounding landscape.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 100%
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs the work as oil on canvas.
Time Periods
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Late 19th Century Art Metadata · 100%
The work is dated 1891, placing it in the late nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 100%
The artist is identified as French and the place of origin is France.
Source & rights
Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943). Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 8,011 × 9,737 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available