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Jean Achille Benouville

Sunset from a Rocky Coastline, 1842

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink over graphite on blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.1 x 29 cm (7 15/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

Accession Number

2011.58.1

Artists / Makers

Jean Achille Benouville (artist) French, 1815 - 1891

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: 1842; verso, lower right in graphite: 010123

Marks and Labels

Benouville's studio stamp, with #13

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke; (Stephen Ongpin, New York); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

Exhibition History

2012: Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2012, 32, 158, no. 7 (color). (French title: De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke.)

2014: The Color of Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Landscape Watercolors, NGA, 2014.

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