Signed, lower left: Gamba de preydour 1877
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
Department
European Modern Art to 1970
Details
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.