Fin du Marché

Anna Chassar Dallas

"Fin du Marché" translates to "End of Market," and in this woodengraving Dallas depicts a group of Breton women packing up their unsold wares, wearing traditional Breton costumes.

Bretons are an ethnic group that are native to Brittany, located in northwestern France. They have their own language and identity, including dances, music, cuisine, and the distintive dress, some of which are decorated according to profession or location. The women wear long dresses with white aprons and lace collars with over 800 various lace headdresses.

Little is found on Scottish artist Anna (also called 'Ann' or 'Annie') Chassar Dallas. It is known that she was a watercolorist, lithographer, and wood engraver influenced by woodengraver Iain Macnab. Though it’s unknown if she attended Macnab’s Grosvenor School, Dallas exhibited with Grosvenor artists at Redfern Gallery and New English Art Club (NEAC) in London.