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| Title | Le Soir aux Martigues | |
| Collection | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Artist | Appian, Adolphe (French painter and printmaker, 1818-1898) French School |
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| Date Earliest | probably about 1850 | |
| Date Latest | probably 1898 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | This attractive and well executed landscape which has a fresh quality to the brushwork and rendering of light, perhaps owing to Appian's training with Corot and Daubigny. In the foreground, a man is on a river or inlet in a rowing boat with fishing baskets; another man is in a boat in the middle distance. To the left, there is an expanse of water with a few sea birds; to the right, the shoreline is scattered with twigs, stones, logs. Further along the shore, a couple of boats rest up. To the right middle-distance, there is a village of whitewashed houses with terracotta roofs. There is a suggestion of countryside and hills in the far distance. | |
| Current Accession Number | BATVG:P:1946.57 | |
| Inscription | front ll ‘Appian’ | |
| Subject | place (Martigues, Marsailles); landscape; marine; figure | |
| Measurements | 69.2 x 115.4 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Mrs Kindersley 1946. | |
| Publications | Sloman, S., Victoria Art Gallery: Concise Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings, Bath, 1991, p.2. | |
| Notes | Mrs Kindersley was a resident of the Circus, Bath. | |
| Rights Owner | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Author | Dr Susan Steer | |