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Artist
Louis Gabriel MoreauFrench, 1740–1806
Le Gue rustique (The Rustic River Ford)
no date
Gouache on wove paper
Sheet (irregular): 4 13/16 × 5 1/2 in. (12.3 × 14 cm)
Mount (original): 5 7/8 × 6 7/8 in. (15 × 17.4 cm)
Mat (original): 6 7/8 × 7 7/16 in. (17.5 × 18.9 cm)
Mount (original): 5 7/8 × 6 7/8 in. (15 × 17.4 cm)
Mat (original): 6 7/8 × 7 7/16 in. (17.5 × 18.9 cm)
The Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection
44.543
Comparative Images
Fig. 44.1. Louis Gabriel Moreau, Landscape with Two Weeping Willows, 18th century, gouache on paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 44.542.
Fig. 44.2. Louis Gabriel Moreau, La Vallée: Pastoral River Landscape with Traveler Accompanying Shepherdess on Horseback with Flock of Sheep and Goats about to Ford a Stream, 18th century, gouache over graphite on paper, The Morgan Library & Museum, 1981.11, purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.
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