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Source Description
Veyrassat painted with watercolor in a way that has become popular today. He applied transparent washes of color to the page in a looser style than many of his contemporaries. He may have seen early 19th-century watercolors by British artists who experimented with this technique. This scene of ferry horses recalls the compositions of the English romantic painter John Constable. British art was very influential, especially on French landscape painting, in the decades after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815.
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Document identity
localId
4109
label
Ferry Horses
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
4109
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Ferry Horses
description
Veyrassat painted with watercolor in a way that has become popular today. He applied transparent washes of color to the page in a looser style than many of his contemporaries. He may have seen early 19th-century watercolors by British artists who experimented with this technique. This scene of ferry horses recalls the compositions of the English romantic painter John Constable. British art was very influential, especially on French landscape painting, in the decades after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815.
provenance
Acquired by William T. Walters, Baltimore, probably 1864; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
ca. 1864
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
watercolors (paintings)
drawings
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
16.3
height
29.9
dimensionsRaw
H: 6 7/16 x W: 11 3/4 in. (16.3 x 29.9 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] In watercolor at lower left: J. Veyrassat; [Number] In graphite on verso: 18
med
watercolor with graphite underdrawing on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper
creator_ids
4700
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2069
3500
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
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3090b9b0eb7b58a2
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no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
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cc762bfcfc5721c2
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no