La Partie de la Pêche (The Fishing Party)
Eanger Irving Couse, La Partie de la Pêche (The Fishing Party), 1890, oil on canvas, Gift of Miss Clementina and Miss Virginia Wilson and niece, Miss Louise Linthicum, public domain, 1995.54
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- Title
La Partie de la Pêche (The Fishing Party)
- Related Titles
original language: La Partie de la Pêche
translated: The Fishing Party
- Artist
- Date
1890
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
47 3/8 in x 62 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
label: E.I. Couse: An image Maker for America/December 1991 March 1992/Albuquerque Museum of Art, verso, on backing board, upper right
label: Girls Fishing/Couse/25.16/Loan Miss Couch by Miss Virginia Wilson, Back of frame, upper right corner
signature; date: Eanger I. Couse, // Paris, 1890, brushed, lower left
- Collection Area
American Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Miss Clementina and Miss Virginia Wilson and niece, Miss Louise Linthicum
- Accession Number
1995.54
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Born in Michigan, Eanger Irving Couse first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then at the National Academy of Design in New York before leaving for Paris in 1886. His years at the Académie Julian and his studies with William-Adolphe Bouguereau gave him a passion for figure drawing, a talent he was to perfect in later years in his well-known paintings of Native American subjects, particularly those of the Southwest.
La Partie de la Pêche was painted following a summer spent in the port village of Concarneau in Brittany. His wife, Virginia, served as model for both figures. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1890 and received favorable attention, with one critic noting "… here the luminous tonality passing from blue to rose produces an effect of exquisite charm."
- Exhibitions
1998 The Other Nineteenth Century Portland Art Museum