A landscape watercolor of a shoreline, with bright blue waves with white tips meeting the edge of a growing and bustling town.

City of Monterey, California. November First, 1875.

Leon Trousset (active ca. 1875-1880s)

Date

1875
Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions

Image: 16 1/2 x 44 3/8 in.
Sheet: 20 1/16 x 45 7/8 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.r. signed on stone: Leon Trousset
l.c.: CITY OF MONTEREY, \ California. \ November first, 1875.
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1977.1
Copyright

Public domain

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The Allure of Paper: Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection

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This special exhibition showcases one-of-a-kind works on paper never before exhibited together, chronicling the sweeping changes that occurred in American art over the course of nearly 200 years from portraiture and history painting to modernism and abstraction.

Location: Off view

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