Nº 23
Reading edition
L. Hervier FRENCH
THE FISHING BOAT
Height, 13¾ inches; width, 10¾ inches
In the foreground, drawn up on the beach, is a small roughly constructed fishing boat with a single mast and lowered sail, apparently just landed after a good catch of skate, for the small cockpit is half filled with fish. A large one lies on the sand near the boat, and beyond, on the shingle-covered shore, stands a fisherwoman near a pile of fish, holding another large one in her hand. Following the line of a beach which sweeps away to the extreme distance, broken only by a single craft left high and dry by the tide, is a row of steep-roofed thatched cottages, touched here and there by a strong shaft of sunlight which breaks through the rolling storm clouds covering the sky.
Signed at the lower left, Hervier, ’47.