MATHURIN MÉHEUT MUSEUM
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This museum dedicated to the most popular Breton painter is located in a modern and very well designed setting.
This museum dedicated to the most popular Breton painter has moved in June 2022 in one of the stables of the stud farm. A new modern and very well designed setting, to better highlight the diversity and quality of the work of this local artist. Born in 1882 to a craftsman and an innkeeper from Lamballe, this very prolific artist, curious about everything, was a painter, engraver, draughtsman, decorator... His work is marked by a documentary aspect, with a talent for capturing the moment and a sensitivity to detail. Mathurin Méheut first became known for his work on marine fauna and flora, during a founding stay at the Station of Marine Biology in Roscoff, between 1910 and 1912. He also looked at Japan, then sketched the daily life of soldiers at the front during the Great War. Mobilized for more than four years, he sent his wife nearly a thousand illustrated letters. A quasi-ethnographic approach that he also applied to Brittany: he depicted the work of fishermen and artisans, collective events such as pardons ... A valuable and accurate testimony on the region, then straddling between tradition and modernization. Méheut also collaborated with the Henriot pottery of Quimper, decorated liners, illustrated books ... The permanent exhibition ends with the discovery of the masterly tapestry The Sea, a piece of 6 m by 4. The thematic exhibition is renewed every year. A touching and instructive visit, highly recommended.
