Coastal View in Normandy, with a Beached Boat

1823

Augustin Enfantin

Associated Names
Augustin Enfantin

Artist, French, 1793 - 1827

This image shows a coastal scene with a sailboat on the sand. The horizon, sky, water, additional boat, brushstrokes, color palette, background buildings, and mood are also depicted.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor with scratching out over traces of graphite(?) on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 12.2 × 15.4 cm (4 13/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
    mount: 20.3 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.40.64

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably the artist's studio sale, Paris, 3 March 1828, no. 243 or 248); album amicorum in a private Paris collection; (acquired c. 2012 by Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased c. 2017 by Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2009

  • Prouté Catalogue 152, Paris, 2017, no. 34.

Inscriptions

lower left in brown ink: Enfantin 1823; on verso, imprint of a drawing of woods by Lemercier (apparently from the album amicorum that held both drawings)

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