A Way of Life: The Collection of Barbara & Ernest Kafka
Richard Parkes Bonington
Townsfolk at the quayside watching stone workers, Dunkerque
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A Way of Life: The Collection of Barbara & Ernest Kafka
Richard Parkes Bonington
Arnold 1801 - 1828 London
Townsfolk at the quayside watching stone workers, Dunkerque
Pencil;
together with Fishing boats going out and Fishing boats in rough seas by Francois Louis Thomas Francia (1793-1861), the first grey washes over pencil, the second, pencil;
both signed with initials: LF
119 by 96 mm; 175 by 240 mm; 109 by 180 mm
(3)
Probably Pierre-Julien Gaudefroy (b. 1804);
Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1873);
Paul Colin (1838-1916);
from whom acquired by A. Dubuisson;
sale, London, Replica Shoes 's, 9 April 1992, lot 21 (as Figures on a quay),
with Agnew's, London,
where acquired by the late owners
The second:
With Andrew Wyld, by 1987,
where acquired by the late owners
P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, the complete drawings, New Haven 2011, p. 94, no. 151
The Bonington drawing has been dated to 1824, the year that he visited Dunkerque with his fellow artist Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875). Whereas Colin returned to Paris fairly shortly after their arrival, Bonington seems to have spent a number of months living on the coast.
Other drawings from this period survive in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and Patrick Noon has noted that 'although [he] has ascribed the entire group to Bonington, Colin's authorship of some of these sheets is highly probable'.1
1. P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, the complete drawings, New Haven 2011, p. 11
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