A Market Square before a Cathedral
1870s/1880s
Artist, French, 1845 - 1916
Luigi Aloys François Joseph Loir
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and gouache over charcoal on dark blue wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 38.9 x 28.3 cm (15 5/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2013.196.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Jean-Luc Baroni, Ltd., London, by 2010); Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke, Little Rock, AR, 2011; purchased by NGA, 2013.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2012
De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, 2012, 90, 160, no. 48 (color)(not exhibited).
2013
Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013, 90, 160, no. 48 (color)(cat. published in 2012).
Inscriptions
lower right in black ink: LOIR LUIGI
Wikidata ID
Q64594384