Chasse-marée (fishing luggers) making sail, off Calais

细节

François Louis Thomas Francia (1772-1839)
Chasse-marée (fishing luggers) making sail, off Calais
pencil, pen and brownish red ink and watercolour, with scratching out
3¾ x 5¾ in. (9.5 x 14.6 cm.)

来源

Miss B.A. Thorpe.
with Anthony Reed, London.

出版

S. Smith and A. Reed, Louis Francia, London, 1985, no. 44.
G. Bauer, Le Siècle d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 65, pl. 72, illustrated in colour.
W. Hauptman, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 75, pl. 31, illustrated in colour.

展览

London, Anthony Reed, Louis Francia and his son Alexandre, October 1985, no. 44, illustrated.
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, 22 January - 24 May 1999, no. 31.

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拍品专文

Bonington's early work is almost indistinguishable from Francia's work in this manner. A watercolour by Bonington (Shipping off Calais Pier, 1818) in a private collection is comparable in both composition and technique (P. Noon, On the Pleasure of Painting, New Haven, 1991, p. 16, fig. 2).