Openning of the exhibit Museu Adentro /13 Presentation by Prof. Ana Paula Rebelo Correia, Scientific Consultant to the NOVO BANCO Painting Collection The two paintings, ‘Volta do Rio’ and ‘Chamando a Barcaça’, were painted in Pont-Scorff, where Souza Pinto settled in 1903 and which inspired him deeply. They depict washerwomen washing and bleaching clothes in the River Scorff, one of the most common occupations in the region during the 19th century and early 20th century. Souza Pinto assimilates in his painting the expression of psychological feeling conveyed by the realists, the aesthetic values of the impressionists, and the atmospheric veracity of outdoor painting, developing a very unique and unmistakable artistic and interpretative component, marked in particular by his ability to reconcile the melancholic, darker and cloudier atmosphere that characterises the Breton landscape with the luminous atmosphere he saw in Portugal, where he spent long periods of time.