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Gossip on the beach

Maker

(artist)
1824-1898

Title

Gossip on the beach

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

graphite, watercolour on discoloured buff wove paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 11.2 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1982.LB.17

Mode of Acquisition

Lillian Browse, bequest, 31.7.1984

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Hauke & Co. (New York), after 1936; Lillian Browse, London (1906-2005), by 1943; Lillian Browse Gift 1982

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Mount (removed, now in file), Verso: upper right, text printed in black ink and added in brown ink on a white label: "DE HAUKE & CO, INC. / 3 EAST 51 ST. / T36v //"; centre, printed in black ink, partly obscured by a later label: "JAMES BOURLET & SONS, Ltd., / Fine Art Packers, Frame Makers. / [...]9281 / [...] NASSAU STREET, / [...]MER STREET, W. / [...]UM 1871 & 7588. //"; lower left, typewritten in black ink: "Eugene Boudin / Femmes Causant / Miss Lillian Browse / 453G. 1943 //".

Inscription: Verso (now obscured by Japanese tissue): lower right edge, graphite: "39". Mount (removed, now in file), Recto: upper centre edge, graphite: "6"; lower right, graphite: "39"; lower left edge, graphite: "1c"; lower right edge, graphite: "T". Mount (removed, now in file), Verso: upper centre, black chalk, now faded with age and hard to read: "Lot 62 / 1 / 1 //".

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