A Farm in Brittany, ca. 1894, Oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 35 5/8 in. (72. 4 x 90. 5 cm), Paintings, Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848?1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands), Breton culture, infused with vestiges of its pagan Celtic past, appealed to Gauguin's taste for the primitive and the exotic. This work is thought to have been painted during his fifth and final visit to the region in 1894, between voyages to the tropics