Paysage au Bateau (2nd Plate)

Catalogue number: SO 0001
Artist: Alphonse Legros
Printer: Frederick Goulding
Date: 1885
Medium: Etching
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 414 x 196 mm
Catalogues: Bliss 499
State: X/XIV

Subject

A Burgundian landscape with a river in the foreground. A small boat with a cargo of barrels and two male figures crossing the plate from left to right. One figure in the boat steering with an oar while his companion hauls the boat with a rope. In the background a heavily-wooded hillside and buildings. Signed in pencil ‘A Legros’ bottom right.

Printing

The impression is heavily worked. Printing is ascribed to Frederick Goulding on the assumption that Bliss names Goulding as the owner of a rare 4th state impression.

History

Purchased at auction from Keys Fine Art Auctioneers, Aylsham, Norwich on 13 June 2016. Conserved by Raymond McChrystal in 2024

References

Bliss 499

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1951.19.22, an earlier state