Harbor and Boats
Artist:
Charles François Lacroix de Marseille
(French, ca. 1730-ca. 1792)
Culture: French
Dynasty: House of Bourbon
Date: ca. 1782
Medium: Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Dimensions:
29 3/4 x 51 1/4 in. (75.6 x 130.2 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 2005.1.167
Signed: Signed, lower left
Inscribed: Attributed, titled, and dated on reverse
Provenance: Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, by bequest to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2005
Label Text
Glistening effects of light on water animate this scene of fishermen busily working in a southern French port, probably near Marseilles.Charles-François de Lacroix made his living painting marine pictures like this. He emulated his teacher, Joseph Vernet, who created a vogue for patriotic images of the ports of France. Lacroix began with observation of nature, shown by his attention to atmosphere, then altered his compositions in the studio to conform to the current academic landscape conventions. He typically framed his harbors with curving bluffs at left and right, dividing the seascape into distinct spatial zones. The woman reclining at left, wearing a white blouse and eye-catching red skirt, is a recurring figure in Lacroix’s paintings.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2018)
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2018)
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