A Breton Boy by Irish Painter Roderic O’Conor Heads to the Musée D’Orsay

Thanks to the Friends of the Orsay and Orangerie Museums, the institution has acquired O’Conor’s 1923 work Breton Boy in Profile, likely painted in Pont-Aven. The portrait stands out for both its formal radicalism and its subject: a masculine model, as opposed to O’Conor’s typical Breton girls in regional costume.