Émile HAMONIC (1861-1943). "Vieux du Menez Hom, ceux qu'on ne verra plus". Sanguine with white chalk highlights, titled and signed lower right. Height : 40 cm - Width : 31 cm Attached is a color print by the artist, signed lower right, depicting the oratory of Saint Guirec in Ploumanach. A French art publisher, painter and photographer, he was born in Saint-Brieuc, in the Côtes du Nord region, and became a fervent defender of Brittany, going so far as to join the Breton Regionalist Union. One of the first major publishers of postcards, he began illustrating them in Saint-Brieuc in 1893.