The Boatbuilder's Yard, Cancale, Brittany

Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859 - 1929)

National Maritime Museum

1881

The work depicts a girl sitting on a workbench with her knitting, in front of a partially constructed boat. Tools lie on the ground. The boatbuilder's yard was at Cancale near St Malo in Brittany.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 76 x 81 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £10000 ( Total: £46,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1987
• Vendor: David Messum Fine Art Ltd

Provenance

David Messum Gallery.

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