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Watercolor painting of a two masted ship with a French flag flying off its stern. The background is a hilly coastline and the foreground is rocky. The wood frame is painted gold with a high outside edge and all sides have carved edges.
watercolors (paintings)
watercolor (paint)
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Painting
"Two Masted Lateen Rigged Faluca / Off the French Coast near Marseilles / This picture though not signed is undoubtedly by / Francois Roux. / The same rocks in the foreground appear in a great / many of his pictures. I bought it in New York in January 1932 of / Sumner Healy who had purchased it with a lot of Roux paintings / from Jules Roux the grandson of Francois. / SWP" (Typed note found in Stephen W. Phillips account book.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P181
FA024
Possibly Roux, Francois Geoffroy, 1811-1882 (Painter)
Sumner Healey Antique Shop (Dealer)
New York, New York
23 1/16 x 29 3/16 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.604
New York state (United States)
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