Le Balcon sur la Mer (The Balcony onto the Sea)

1925

Jean-Émile Laboureur

Associated Names
Jean-Émile Laboureur

Artist, French, 1877 - 1943

The image shows a woman standing on a balcony facing away from the viewer, looking towards the sea. She has her hair styled into a bun with flowers and is wearing a long, lightweight dress with a checked pattern. The balcony features ornate wrought iron railings, and there are sailboats in the water visible through the open balcony doors and window above the railing.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift (Partial and Promised) of Judy and Leo Zickler

  • Dimensions

    image: 29 x 20 cm (11 7/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
    plate: 30.5 x 21.6 cm (12 x 8 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 44.2 x 31.3 cm (17 3/8 x 12 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2008.84.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Laboureur 1989, 274 iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Armstrong Fine Art, Bethesda, MD); Mr. and Mrs. Leo E. Zickler, Bethesda, Maryland, 2005; Promised gift 2008 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1989

  • Laboureur, Sylvain. Catalogue complet de l'oeuvre de Jean-Emile Laboureur: Gravures et lithographies individuelles / Livres illustrés. 3 vols. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1989 and 1990, 274.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: laboureur; lower right in graphite: 46/57 ip; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 101 (underlined)

Watermarks

partial 'NEN'

Wikidata ID

Q76438829

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