Ernest Guérin (1887-1952), peintre et enlumineur breton

Exposition « Marguerite Raffray et André Wilder, Regards croisés de deux peintres paysagistes en Bretagne »

Exhibition, Painting, Cultural in Le Faouët
  • He paints. He illuminates. He frames. With a favourite subject: Brittany. All summer long, the Musée du Faouët is celebrating the imaginary world of Ernest Guérin, a man with a passion for the Middle Ages and its legends. Follow him as he plunges into his dreamlike, poetic world.

  • Ernest Guérin was "the prince of a land that no guidebook describes". That's what Romane Petroff, a specialist in 19th-century painting, has to say, and that's what makes this artist so close to us today! All aboard until autumn in Le Faouët, for a journey into mysterious Brittany, with its immense horizons. With miniaturised characters. A Brittany of tales and legends, to dream about, inspired by medieval times. Guérin is mad about painting, miniatures and illumination: he plunges you into...
    Ernest Guérin was "the prince of a land that no guidebook describes". That's what Romane Petroff, a specialist in 19th-century painting, has to say, and that's what makes this artist so close to us today! All aboard until autumn in Le Faouët, for a journey into mysterious Brittany, with its immense horizons. With miniaturised characters. A Brittany of tales and legends, to dream about, inspired by medieval times. Guérin is mad about painting, miniatures and illumination: he plunges you into his imaginary world influenced by Asian art. 150 works, some never seen before. A whole universe. Fantastic.
  • Spoken languages
    • French
Schedules
Schedules
  • From April 5, 2025 until October 5, 2025
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