Breton Fishermen and Their Families, possibly ca. 1880?85, Oil on canvas, 21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (55. 2 x 46. 4 cm), Paintings, Theodule-Augustin Ribot (French, Saint-Nicolas-d'Attez 1823?1891 Colombes), Toward the end of his life, Ribot, who was strongly influenced by seventeenth-century Spanish painters, especially Ribera, brought a vigorous realism and a predilection for contrasting values to the subject of Breton and Norman peasants