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View of Paris, with St. Sulpice and part of the Luxembourg Palace

Maker

(artist)
1772-1837

Title

Date of Production

(after) 1826

Medium

black chalk, grey wash and blue watercolour, white bodycolour on light grey wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.4 cm
Width: 19.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3572

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Keywords

Label Text

Amelia Long was one of the first British artists to travel to France following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. She probably made this delicate watercolour on a later trip, as indicated by the initials AF in the lower right corner (she became Lady Farnborough when her husband was raised to the peerage in 1826). Long rendered the scene in broad watercolour washes, establishing a striking contrast between the stern verticality of the church, palace and garden statuary and their wavering reflections in the surface of the pond. 

Provenance

Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971); Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£4); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

A View of One's Own, Landscapes by British Women Artists, 1760-1860, Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/01/2026-20/05/2026

The Discovery of Paris. Watercolours by early 19th century
British Artists, The Wallace Collection, London, 10/06/2013-15/09/2013

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 19

The Discovery of Paris. Watercolours by early 19th century British Artists, The Wallace Collection, London, 2013
cat. no. 37

The Discovery of Paris: Watercolours by Early Nineteenth-Century British Artists, The Wallace Collection, 2013 London 2013
no. 37
ill. on p. 88

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as drawing inlaid to mount.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, grey ink: “AF”. Verso (reliant on photo as drawing inlaid to mount): centre, graphite: “OnWhite Mounts”. Mount (removed, cut down and now in object file): graphite, L.G. Duke's hand: “D191/ / Amelia Lady Farnborough / The Luxembourg and St Sulpice. / Lady Farnborough was the wife of Sir Charles Long / under secretary of State, art Patron, and one of the founders of / the National Gallery. He was created Lord Farnborough in 1826. / His wife, Amelia Long, was the favourite pupil of Thomas / Girtin (see J.L. Roget: History of the Old Water Colour Soiety: / Vol I. p 91) / LGD”; graphite, erased: “Paris 259 / St Sulpice & the Luxembourg / Lady Farnborough”.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, cut down and now in object file), stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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