Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux (1765-1835)

细节
Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux (1765-1835)
'La Mere de Famille du Havre, Armateur M. Achard Neveu'
signed, inscribed as title and dated 'Antn. Roux a Marseille 1813'
pencil, pen, black ink and watercolour
16½ x 26in. (42 x 66cm.)
来源
The Keller Collection, No. 838/K 130

拍品专文

Despite her French name, this vessel is flying the distinctive ensign used by Danish merchants trading in the mediterranean, the large F6 within the central cross of the flag denoting the King of Denmark, Frederick VI (1808-1839). The fact that the ship is clearly French however suggests that she was simply on charter to rather than owned by her Danish operators.