“Soleil levant dans la brume, Rotterdam”

Medium	Oil on canvas
Signed	Signed, titled and dated lower right
Size	19.00" × 29.00" (48.3cm × 73.7cm)
Framed Size	27.00" × 37.00" (68.6cm × 94.0cm)
Dated	1895
Condition	Very good condition
Provenance	Galeries Georges Petit, Paris - 1923 The Leicester Galleries (Ernest Brown & Phillips), London, 1923 Private collection, United Kingdom LITERATURE Léonce Bénédite, Albert Lebourg, Paris, Éditions des Galeries Georges Petit, 1923, catalogue of paintings compiled by Georges Bergaud

Summary

An early morning on the Maas, the sun still low and veiled, its warmth spread across the whole upper half of the canvas in pale cream and apricot with a flush of rose at the top left corner. Against it the far bank reads as a single band of blue and turquoise — a church spire, the sails of a windmill, bare poplars, the stacks of a factory trailing smoke — all flattened by the haze into silhouette, with no detail permitted to break the atmosphere. To the right, a tall gabled warehouse stands darker and nearer. Barges lie moored along the left bank, their pale cargo covers catching the light, and a single figure works a rowing boat out into mid-stream, his reflection running down through water laid in with long horizontal strokes of blue, white and the sky’s own cream. The handling is wet and rapid throughout, the paint thin over a warm ground, and the whole picture is held together by light rather than by drawing — Lebourg at his most purely Impressionist, and on one of the Dutch campaigns that produced his finest river subjects.

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