Keywords: Jean-Antoine-Théodore de Gudin - Riverscape with Boats - Walters 371631.jpg Jean-Antoine-Théodore de Gudin is best known for his large-scale paintings of sea battles and violent shipwrecks This peaceful marshy landscape is in sharp contrast to the artist's many battleship scenes which earned de Gudin the title of Peintre de la Marine the official painter of the French royal fleet 1828 brown ink wash with scraping and graphite underdrawing on cream moderately thick moderately textured wove paper cm 15 5 23 4 accession number 37 1631 39358 William T Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters T Gudin 1828 in ink lower left; 45 and 56 in graphite verso The Essence of Line place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D The Essence of Line Drawings by Théodore Gudin Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Drawings in the Walters Art Museum |