French School, Fishing Boats Moored in a Harbour, Oil on Canvas, Early 20th Century, Gilt Frame
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Description
▾The water takes up half the canvas and nothing floats still on it. Every hull is doubled by a broken reflection, and the only pure colours in the picture are a yellow sail and two orange buoys.
Oil on canvas, unlined, 9 1/2 x 16 inches (24 x 41 cm), 12 x 18 3/4 inches (30 x 48 cm) framed, unsigned. French School, early twentieth century, in a gilt frame with carved corner ornaments.
Fishing boats lie moored in a dense mass along the left, their masts and rigging drawn in dark vertical strokes over the hulls. A barge with a red roof sits at the centre, a small yellow sail beyond it. Across the water the far shore runs low and pale under a headland, with a second line of moored craft at the right. The paint is laid in short loaded touches throughout, and the sea is worked in green, teal and grey with no drawn line anywhere.
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A working harbour, not a view The boats are packed hull to hull with their gear aboard, which is how a fishing fleet lies between tides and not how a yacht basin looks. The painter set up low and close, at water level, and gave two thirds of the canvas to the water itself. It is the port seen by someone standing on the quay, not the postcard view taken from the hill. |
The frame is a gilt moulding with carved ornaments at the four corners.
The canvas is unlined and stable on its stretcher. An old restoration is visible at the upper right in the photographs, and the frame has small gaps.
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Details
▾Artist
French SchoolPeriod
Early 20th centuryOrigin
FranceStyle
ImpressionismMedium
Oil on canvas, unlinedSignature
UnsignedFrame
Gilt moulding with carved ornaments at the four corners, the gilding worn on the high points.Features
Original, one of a kindDimensions
▾Painting
9 1/2 x 16 inchesFramed
12 x 18 3/4 inchesCondition
The canvas is unlined and stable on its stretcher. An old restoration at the upper right, visible in the photographs. Small gaps to the frame.
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