La Lutte, Emile Friant, 1889

This is a reproduction of Emile Friant’s “La Lutte, or The Wrestle” of 1889.  Emile Friant was fond of depicting everyday French peasants in their routine pastimes.  He died in 1932 at the age of sixty-nine years.  This particular painting captures a scene of youths wrestling by a stream in the French countryside.  The painting is in the Musee Fabre in Montpellier, France.

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