In this artwork, how is the Background discussed?
Tanner visited Europe in 1891.  He studied in Paris, enrolling at the Académie Julian, while enjoying a sense of belonging within the city's international and racially diverse community of artists. During his first summer in France, he traveled to the village of Pont-Aven on Brittany's coast. Brittany was a popular destination for artists, and Tanner became fascinated with his rural French surroundings.Tanner returned to the Philadelphia in the summer of 1893, after he began making an artist's study of Study for the Young Sabot Maker. He signed it "Paris 1893." It has been suggested the return was in the fall of 1892. However, he shared an apartment in Paria for part of 1893 with "sculptor Hermon A. MacNeil at 15 rue de Seine" in 1893.
Study for the Young Sabot Maker Académie Julian Brittany