Rue Vivienne, Paris

Details

David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (1783-1859)
Rue Vivienne, Paris
signed 'D. Cox' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out
8¾ x 6 in. (22.2 x 15.2 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 July 1987, lot 111.
with Agnew's, London.

Literature

G. Bauer, Le Siècle d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 102, pl. 129, illustrated in colour.
W. Hauptman, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 110, no. 60, illustrated in colour.
G. Bauer, David Cox: 1783-1859, Précurseur des Impressionistes?, Anthèse, 2000, p. 146, illustrated in colour.

Exhibited

London, Agnew's, 115th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 1988, no. 66, illustrated.
London, Agnew's, 121st Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 1994, no. 33, illustrated.
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, 22 January - 24 May 1999, no. 60.

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Lot Essay

Painted by Cox in about 1829 from sketches made on his visit to France in that year. Another watercolour of this street is at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris.
Cox purchased a sketchbook from Werner's Marchand Papetier, 2 bis rue Vivienne, opposite the Bibliotèque Nationale, which he used for many of his Parisian sketches. The sketchbook was included in the Cox Bicentenary exhibition at Birmingham and the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1983, no. 56.
A striking watercolour of Near the Pont d'Arcole, Paris, shows a similarly Bonington-like approach to the architecture (S. Wildman, David Cox 1783-1859, Birmingham, 1983, no. 59, illustrated p. 79).

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