Sunset from a Rocky Coastline
1842
Artist, French, 1815 - 1891
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink over graphite on blue-gray wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.1 x 29 cm (7 15/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
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Accession
2011.58.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke; (Stephen Ongpin, New York); purchased 2011 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2012
Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2012, 32, 158, no. 7 (color). (French title: De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke.)
2014
The Color of Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Landscape Watercolors, NGA, 2014.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: 1842; verso, lower right in graphite: 010123
Markings
Benouville's studio stamp, with #13
Wikidata ID
Q64580987