Ile de la Cité from the Institut, Paris

Ile de la Cité from the Institut, Paris by Thomas Shotter Boys

Medium

graphite with stumping on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 24.2 x 32.7 cm (9 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Lowell Libson in honor of Donald Stone

Accession Number

2007.72.1

About the Artist

Thomas Shotter Boys · 18031874

Thomas Shotter Boys was born on 2 January 1803 in Pentonville, London, and received his first professional training as an apprentice to the engraver George Cooke. When his apprenticeship concluded he crossed the Channel to Paris, a move that would transform his artistic direction entirely. There he encountered Richard Parkes Bonington, the brilliant English watercolourist whose fresh, luminous ren...

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