Tuna Fishing at Sunrise off the Coast near Marseilles

1860s

Félix Ziem

Artist, French, 1821 - 1911

Félix Ziem

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor with pen and brown ink and touches of gum arabic over graphite, on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.6 × 41 cm (11 1/4 × 16 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.81.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Tajan, Paris, 3 May 2012, no. 110); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Stephen Ongpin Fine Arts: Master Drawings 2013, Mark Murray Fine Paintings, New York, 2013, no. 29

2014

  • The Color of Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Landscape Watercolors, NGA, 2014.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink: Ziem

Wikidata ID

Q64561294


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