Fishing Boats, Etretat

Inscriptions

Inscribed and dated, lower left: Etretat. Aug. 9th 1873; inscribed, in graphite, lower margin (not artist's hand): 30 [struck out] . 31; inscribed, on reverse (somewhat less-finished beach scene), lower left: Etretat: Aug 1873.

Exhibition History

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2-November 1, 2009.

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.

Possibly in Annual Exhibition, American Watercolor Society, New York, no. 61 (as "Boats at Etretat, France"), 1876.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 21, 41, 98, 255, ill. p. 99, no. 22.

Provenance

The artist; by descent in the artist's family to Mary Lublin Fine Arts, Inc., New York, by 1988; sold to present collection, 1998.

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