A Cove with Fishermen, 1877

  • Jules Alexander Gamba de Preydour, French, 1846 - c. 1931

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 25 × 39 1/2 inches (63.5 × 100.3 cm)
  • 29 3/4 × 44 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (75.6 × 113 × 8.3 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman H. Mopper

71.301

Signed, lower left: Gamba de preydour 1877

private collection (England). 1878, Hennessy collection. 1971, (Degrimme Art Gallery, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

Dr. & Mrs. Coleman Mopper (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Paris Salon. 1878, no. 965 ["Peira-Fourmiga -- anse de pêcheurs aux environs de Nice"]. Bellier de la Chavignerie, E. and L. Auvray. Anse de pêcheurs aux environs de Nice. Paris: Renouard, 1882, vol. 1, p. 604 [cited in the Hennessy Collection]. The Figure in 19th Century French Painting. Exh. cat., [DIA Show- on-the-Road. Detroit, 1978/1979, pp. 54-55, cat. 20, (repr.) [Flint Institute of Arts, Flint MI; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids MI; Midland Center for the Arts, Midland MI; Hackley Art Museum, Muskegon MI]. Potron, J.-P. "Alexandre Scipion Gamba de Preydour, 1846-1931?." In Le Pays de Nice et ses Peintres au XIXe siècle, ed. Acadèmia Nissarda. Nice, 1998, p. 197.

Jules Alexander Gamba de Preydour, A Cove with Fishermen, 1877, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman H. Mopper, 71.301.