Nº 82
Reading edition
Constant Troyon FRENCH: 1810-1865
THE FERRY
Height, 25½ inches; length, 32 inches
In the foreground a large flat ferryboat, carrying a horse and cart, several peasants and four cows, has just reached the landing on a low muddy shore, and a horseman and two cows, which have apparently just left the boat, are seen on a sloping roadway which leads to the village on the bank farther away. On either side the placid stream are lofty poplars and other trees, partly in sunlight and partly in shadow, and a barge, with a single sail and bearing the French flag, quietly drifts down the stream. The time is early sunset, and the disk of the full moon is seen high in the simple quiet sky.
Inscribed at the lower left, Vente Troyon.