Lot 412
  • 412

THOMAS SHOTTER BOYS | The Pont des Arts and Île de la Cité from the Quai du Louvre, Paris

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • The Pont des Arts and Île de la Cité from the Quai du Louvre, Paris 
  • Watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with scratching out;signed and dated lower centre: T.S. Boys / 1830 
  • 104 by 173 mm.

Provenance

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 March 1987, lot 135;
with Somerville & Simpson, Ltd., London

Condition

Although some of the very delicate pigments may have softened with time, the work is in overall very fine condition. There is one tiny foxmark in the sky. This can hardly be seen. The sheet is not laid down.
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Catalogue Note

This exquisite watercolour shows Boys working in the spirit of Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828), who also painted Paris from a similar vantage point.1 

1. P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, the complete paintings, Yale 2008, p. 183, no. 158