Yan' Dargent

Yan Dargent's iconic painting "Les Lavandières de la nuit". Painted in 1861. Now in the Quimper Musée des beaux-arts. In a scene lit by moonlight, Dargent depicts the legendary ghosts of washerwoman at work

Jean-Édouard Dargent, known as Yan' Dargent and in his later years Yann Dargent, was born in Saint-Servais on 15 October 1824 and died in Paris on 19 November 1899. He was a French painter and illustrator. Most of his paintings depicted Brittany.