Original etching by Émile Loubon published in the review L'Artiste. It shows a caravan of transhumant shepherds with an ox cart in a Provençal landscape. Lettered below: "Émile Loubon, pinxit et sculp." and "Les Bergers émigrans (Salon de 1841)": the painter etched his own Salon picture.
Original etching by Émile Loubon published in the review L'Artiste. It shows a caravan of transhumant shepherds with an ox cart in a Provençal landscape. Lettered below: "Émile Loubon, pinxit et sculp." and "Les Bergers émigrans (Salon de 1841)": the painter etched his own Salon picture.
Émile Loubon (1809-1863), trained in Marseilles and Rome, was the central figure of the Provençal school of landscape and director of the School of Fine Arts in Marseilles. The impression retains the blind embossed stamp of L'Artiste.
Medium: Original etching on paper
Artist and engraver: Émile Loubon
Date: 1841
Source: L'Artiste review, Paris
Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.1 in (29 x 23 cm)
Condition: Fair, with foxing scattered through the margins; the image itself little affected.