A canal with a fisherman
Watercolour
ca. 1865 (painted)
ca. 1865 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
From the late 1860s, Alphonse Legros was inspired by the rivers and canals around his native Dijon. The soft, indistinct quality of this watercolour, unusual in his work, conveys a powerful sense of atmosphere and depth. Several watercolours by Legros on a similarly large scale were among C.A. Ionides' earliest recorded purchases, and were in his collection by 1868.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | A canal with a fisherman |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour by Alphonse Legros, 'A canal with a fisherman', ca.1865 |
| Physical description | Large watercolour depicting a broad canal with tall trees (poplars?) on each side, and a fisherman on the right-hand bank. |
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| Style | |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides |
| Object history | Perhaps identical with no. 455 at the Royal Academy, 1865, titled: 'Oh! 'tis well for the fisherman's boy, as he shouts with his sister at play'- <u>Tennyson</u>. Probably purchased from the artist by Constantine Alexander Ionides before 12 July 1868 when William Rossetti noted in his diary that Legros had 'various pictures done or in hand', including 'two (or I believe there are more) large watercolour landscapes, one already hung up in C. Ionides house (at which I saw it in the afternoon)'; probably identical with the 'Landscape watercolour' listed in Ionides' inventory of November 1881, valued at £300. Bequeathed by C.A. Ionides, 1900 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | From the late 1860s, Alphonse Legros was inspired by the rivers and canals around his native Dijon. The soft, indistinct quality of this watercolour, unusual in his work, conveys a powerful sense of atmosphere and depth. Several watercolours by Legros on a similarly large scale were among C.A. Ionides' earliest recorded purchases, and were in his collection by 1868. |
| Bibliographic reference | Andrew Watson, 'Constantine Ionides and his Collection of 19th-Century French Art', Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, vol. 3, 1998, pp.25-31- cf. p.26, n.7, ill. fig. 4. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CAI.26 |
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| Record created | April 2, 2008 |
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