Study for "Pêcheurs de la mer du Nord" (Study for "Fishermen of the North Sea"), c. 1893

Not on View

Medium

charcoal, graphite, and colored pencil on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 60.64 × 46.51 cm (23 7/8 × 18 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Eugene Vail, wife of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.566

Artists / Makers

Eugène Vail (artist) American, 1857 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in charcoal: EV; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: [undeciphered]; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: Nous verre belle / cadu 1184 / 61 x 47 mm

Provenance

Mrs. Eugène Vail (wife of the artist), Providence, Rhode Island, 1934; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Vail, Mrs. Eugène

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 117, no. 771.