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Louis Adolphe Hervier

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• Femme puisant de l’eau dans un abreuvoir

• (Woman drawing water from a trough)
• (ndg.), pen and brown ink and wash with watercolor over graphite on paper
• 4.4 x 6.1 in. (11.2 x 15.4 cm.)
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• 1000 x 720 (74 KB)

• Editor’s Note:

  Here is a close up of the pig above:

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• Femme avec un cochon

• [Woman with a pig]
• (1854), lithograph
• 8.9 x 6.5 in. (22.6 x 16.5 cm.)
• Private collection
• 530 x 706 (54 KB)

• Editor’s Note:

  This etching is also reproduced in Henri Beraldi's Les Gravures du XIX Siecle, a twelve volume series of biographical catalogues with images and emphasizing living French etchers and lithographers of the period 1885 to 1892.

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About the Artist

Louis Adolphe Hervier, French, (1818–1879) was a pupil of his father, Marie Antoine Hervier, a successful miniature painter. He worked as a painter, engraver, draughtsman, and lithographer.

Though his work was praised by fellow artist of his time – Champfleury, Corot, Gautier and Bresdin – Hervier gained little financial success and his works are rare. His usual subjects are rural scenes and landscapes from Normandy, Bretagne, Beauce, and Southern France. [DES–4/07]