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Joseph Morviller (American/French, 1800-1870) HARVESTING FROM THE RIVER.

Sold for $5,036 at James D. Julia on Feb 3, 2016.

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Oil on canvas. Housed in a magnificent gesso decorated gilt frame with gilt liner (re-gilt). Signed lower right "J Morviller". A nice Hudson River School style composition showing a man with hand scythe filling a boat and a man & woman with a fishing net on a path. . Joseph Morviller, born in Paris, was a landscape painter & lithographer. He studied fresco painting in England and France. he came to Boston, Massachusetts in 1852, painting his characteristic picturesque winter landscapes with genre elements. His images were published as chromo-lithographs by the Boston art-print publisher, Louis Prang. SIZE: 26" x 36". Overall: 36-1/4 "x 46-1/4" CONDITION: Wax lined, restored with inpainting, very good 50065-1

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