Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé*(French, 1782-1859)

Details
Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé*(French, 1782-1859)

A Sailor pulling his Boat onto a Beach

black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor on paper
4 3/8 x 7¼in. (110 x 187mm.)
Provenance
From an album assembled by Madame Jacques-Félix Duban (1797-1871), born Debret, to her nephew, Paul Duvivier de Streel, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

A similar figure appears among a group of fishermen pulling a boat on shore in a view of the coast Castel la Mare signed and dated 1840, now on the art market, Paris. Smaller studies for these figures are in black chalk and brown wash are in a private collection.