Market under the Arches, Lucerne, Switzerland
Signed lower right: F. Hopkinson Smith
Description
Painting in July 1882, Market under the Arches, Lucerne, Switzerland, is wholly typical of Smith’s mastery of the watercolor medium. During his extensive travels, he was known to carry sheets of paper in a range of white tints and light colors in order to use the negative space effectively, and here he chose a softer shade to reflect the warm light of a European summer and the earth tones of the stone thoroughfare and archway.
Provenance
Collection, Boston, Massachusetts
To private collection, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000 to present
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: Lucerne – July 82
Labels
Exhibitions
Light & Color: 150 Years on Paper, Featuring Frank W. Benson & His Contemporaries, Vose Galleries, Boston, April 21 – May 26, 2018, illus. p. 9
Literature
Condition
Good. There is very light general toning to the paper, and faint residual toning and specks of reduced/removed adhesive at the margins, likely from a previous mat. It is framed behind museum glass.
