The École of Bridge-Swallow-hole is the name which was given a posteriori to group under the same label of the very different artists who regularly came to paint in what was only a small borough Breton of 1  500 inhabitants located between Concarneau and Quimperlé in the south-east of the Finistere in Brittany. The artists more in sight were Paul Gauguin (arrived in 1886), Emile Bernard, Paul Sérusier, Charles Filiger, Maxime Maufra, Henry Moret, Ernest de Chamaillard. Various styles were practiced, from of which the Synthétisme of Felix Jobbé-Duval and the Impressionnisme, born with Claude Monet, and represented by Maufra.

Many foreign artists also took pension especially in summer with Bridge-Swallow-hole well before the Années 1880, in particular of the Americans (including Robert Wylie), of the British and the Poles. Hardware stores and galleries settled and the municipality encouraged the movement by authorizing the bars to remain open up to 10 p.m. Like the other local landlords, Julia Guillou, owner of the Hotel of the Travellers , could include/understand the party which it could draw from the surge of the painter S by building an appendix with a food of quality and low prices. As in other public places, the dining room was decorated by artists who paid sometimes in kind. The artists were allured by the pastoral landscapes sometimes bordering the Estuaire of the Aven or the beautiful rock coast, but they often took as models of the inhabitants being occupied with their occupations or young women who agreed to pose.

Some of the painters known as of the School of Bridge-Swallow-hole also attended the village of the Pouldu located in the commune of Clohars-Carnoët at the mouth of the Laïta at a score of kilometers. So today from many painters come to seek the inspiration with Bridge-Swallow-hole, it is without any doubt Emile Rocher which by its style says transpositionnist marks the art lovers contemporary.