View of a Shore

c. 1881

André-Marie-Paul Borel

Associated Names
André-Marie-Paul Borel

Artist, French, 1828 - 1912

The image is an etching depicting a coastal landscape. Dark trees with intricate foliage are on the left. The horizon line crosses the midsection, with the sea extending into the distance. A sailboat is on the water, and distant hills rise against the sky. The color palette is black, gray, and white. The sky has light, sweeping lines indicating subtle cloud formations.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with monoprint inking on Chinese paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.7 × 23.7 cm (6 3/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 21.2 × 35.7 cm (8 3/8 × 14 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.138.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bidon 1981, undesc.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris); purchased 2019.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1981

  • Bidon, Colette E. "Paul Borel, peintre et graveur lyonnais" Nouvelles de l'Estampe 6 (1981): undescribed.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: EB 129; by later hand, upper right in graphite: 66--E

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