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A Group of Peasants Crossing a Ford with a Horse-Drawn Cart, Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

A Group of Peasants Crossing a Ford with a Horse-Drawn Cart

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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

A Group of Peasants Crossing a Ford with a Horse-Drawn Cart, 1793

Blatt: 325 x 493 mm

Physical Description: Watercolour on laid paper

Inventory Number: 1035

Object Number: 1035 Z

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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The transparency of the watercolours has enabled the artist to create an atmospheric mood borne by light. Staffage in the ford, on the bank and at the centrally placed cross in the middle ground animate the landscape – the Vallée du Gier situated southwest of Lyon.

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Title: A Group of Peasants Crossing a Ford with a Horse-Drawn Cart

Draughtsman

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Period Produced

18th century

School

Baroque

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Watercolour on laid paper

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French

Production Reason

Pictorial drawing

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Datiert und bezeichnet unten links: DB. [ligiert] 1793.

Captions Added Later: Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark: Nicht vorhanden

Work Catalogues: Perez (2018) 72

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18.07.2024