1913, pencil and watercolour, 50.8x61cm
Inscription: signed with title and date b.r.: ‘FB Auxerre 1913’.
Standard reference: Bunt 45
Provenance: Kojiro Matsukata, destroyed in Pantechnicon fire 1939 (no 157 on list).
Illustrated: The Studio, June 1923, p302
Exhibited: Queen’s Gate, 1924, cat 186.
Slender tree trunks with yellow and rust foliage left, boat moored on bank of river foreground right. In background town reflected in water and with pinkish shaded cathedral rising above it.
Auxerre is about 150km south east of Paris on the river Yonne and the Canal du Nivernais and is noted for the production of Burgundy, including Chablis.