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Gabriel Cromer
French (1873-1934)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: French street scene, vegetable peddler's carts

1919
blue toned carbon print
20.1 x 28.2 cm.
Museum Purchase: Charina Foundation Purchase Fund
01:1510:0001

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in ink) "par Gabriel Cromer de Clamant 1919" recto-(in image) "Gabr. Cromer"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/2001, DZ. "The scene captured in the print is a moment in early 20th century French provincial life. Two market women have set up their barrows at a street corner. A trolley pulls up diagonally behind them, as passers by walk towards and away from the camera. It is a well rendered Pictorial composition, quite atmospheric, and blue toned, blue being the favorite color of the Pictorialist school. In all, this is a significant document of yet another facet of Gabriel Cromer, this time of Cromer the artist." [Therese Mulligan, 7/2001]

SUBJECTS:
cityscape, figures in
people, peddlers
transportation, trolley cars

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