Gustave Larée View Of Bordeaux Watercolor Gouache On Paper 1885

This view of Bordeaux signed G. Larée and dated 1885 is a watercolor on paper with its period frame (Henri Pellé, Bordeaux). It dates from the start of the great career of the recognized painter of his time and today preserved in public collections. The artist from Bordeaux, a student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and Grand Prix de Rome in 1895, represents here in a view from above life and the city of Bordeaux, with its dynamism at the end of the 19th century, the smoking chimneys and the horses in busy streets. In short, a very beautiful watercolor with its gouache highlights by G. Larée, also author of the frescoes of the Femina theater in Bordeaux. Sheet dimensions: 67 cm x 45 cm Dimensions with frame: 92 cm x 69 cm