Men Towing a Barge [Study for Boubourouche]
c. 1892
![Men Towing a Barge [Study for Boubourouche] by Henri-Gabriel Ibels](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/men-towing-a-barge-study-for-boubourouche-nga-163232.webp)
Medium
pastel
Dimensions
image: 23.5 × 32 cm (9 1/4 × 12 5/8 in.) (irregular) sheet: 30 × 35 cm (11 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.) (irregular)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Given in Memory of Martin Atlas by his Friends
Accession Number
2013.105.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Henri-Gabriel Ibels · 1867–1936
Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867–1936) was a French illustrator, printmaker, painter, and author born in Paris to parents of Dutch ancestry. His early life remains sparsely documented, but he trained at the Académie Julian alongside fellow students Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, where Paul Sérusier mentored him into the nascent Nabis group. In 1889, Ibels became a founding member of Les Nabis along...