Lot Essay
The merchants on the quay in Morning recur in slightly different poses in the picture in the National Gallery mentioned in the note to the previous lot
Morning: Levantine Merchants on a Quay below a Castle, a three-master at anchor offshore and a port beyond; and Evening: Fishermen unloading a Net from a Rowing Boat near a Rock Arch, a merchantman off a port beyond
Details
Charles-François Grenier de La Croix, called Lacroix de Marseille (c.1700-1782)
Morning: Levantine Merchants on a Quay below a Castle, a three-master at anchor offshore and a port beyond; and Evening: Fishermen unloading a Net from a Rowing Boat near a Rock Arch, a merchantman off a port beyond
the first signed and dated 'De Lacroi 1766', the second 'De La + 1766'
on copper
9 3/8 x 15 5/8in. (23.8 x 39.8cm.)a pair (2)
Morning: Levantine Merchants on a Quay below a Castle, a three-master at anchor offshore and a port beyond; and Evening: Fishermen unloading a Net from a Rowing Boat near a Rock Arch, a merchantman off a port beyond
the first signed and dated 'De Lacroi 1766', the second 'De La + 1766'
on copper
9 3/8 x 15 5/8in. (23.8 x 39.8cm.)a pair (2)
Exhibited
London, Leggatt Brothers, Paintings from the Collection of Dr. D. M. McDonald, 16 Oct.-6 Nov.1970, pp.33-4, nos.15 and 16, illustrated