Full Record |
| Title |
Horses Towing a Boat along a River |
| Alternative Title |
Canal Horses |
| Original Translation |
Chevaux remorquant un bateau sur une rivière; Chevaux de halage |
| Collection |
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle |
| Artist |
Lévis, Henri Jean Baptiste (French painter, 19th century) |
| Date |
1866 (dated) |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
Levis was a landscape painter and watercolourist. A pupil of Berhon, he exhibited from 1844 to 1874. Three horses pull with effort a barge which can be seen it the background. The composition, placing the horses in the light and in the centre of the picture, emphasizes the hardship they are enduring, whilst the menacing sky could at any moment turn the sunshine into a thunder storm. |
| Current Accession Number |
B.M.738 |
| Former Accession Number |
No. 100m |
| Inscription |
front lr 'J.B. Levis 1866' |
| Subject |
animal (horses); figure; landscape |
| Measurements |
21.5 x 46.5 cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on panel (pine) |
| Acquisition Details |
Bequeathed by the founders John and Joséphine Bowes 1885. |
| Notes |
Catalogued as no. 100m in the 1877 MSS List. This painting is also listed in Joséphine Bowes' own list of artists living in 1866, no. 100, under the title 'Chevaux Remorquant un Bateau sur une Rivière'. |
| Rights Owner |
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham |
| Author |
Dr Maylis Hopewell-Curie |
