Olivier (sometimes Olivier) Perrin , French painter, born with Rostrenen in 1761, died with Quimper in 1832.

Very young person, it appears already very gifted for the drawing. After studies of drawing with Rennes, it remains with Paris where he is the pupil of Gabriel-François Doyen. Returned in Brittany, it settles with Quimper where it teaches the drawing with the college. It carries out several tables for Breton churches. Its Breton Gallery , series of drawings which shows the Breton peasant of the cradle to death, is the work which ensures the celebrity to him.

Works

• chronological and picturesque Gallery of the old story , 8.000 labels.
• Gallery of manners, uses and costumes of Breton of Armorique (1808).
• Alexandre Bouët (text) and Olivier Perrin (drawings), presentation of Bernard Géniés, Breizh Izel or life of Breton of Armorique , (349 pages) Seghers Editions, Paris, 1986 (first taken again and prolonged posthumous edition that of 1808 in 1835-36).
• Assumption of the Virgin , table of the church of Rostrenen.

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