The Farmyard at the Château d'Honvault, Wimereux

细节

Lionel Percy Smythe, R.A., R.W.S. (1839-1918)
The Farmyard at the Château d'Honvault, Wimereux
signed 'L P Smythe' (lower right) and inscribed 'No.2/Sketch of a farmyard L.P. Smythe A.R.A. Chateau d'Honvault par Wimereux. Pas de Calais' (on the artist's label on the reverse of the frame)
pencil and watercolour and scratching out
7 x 12 1/8 in. (18 x 31 cm.)

来源

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 March 1992, lot 10.

展览

Possibly London, Royal Watercolour Society, summer 1908, no. 257, as 'Sketch of a Farmyard'.

注意事项

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拍品专文

Smythe and his family moved to the Château d'Honvault, on a hill between Wimereux and Boulogne, in 1882, when their previous house, a Napoleonic fortress on the nearby coast, was engulfed by the sea. A larger version of the present subject, described as showing 'the old castle battlements lit up by the afternoon sun,' was exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society in 1902.