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Salt Flats at Le Croisic
ca. 1671-1673
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Lambert Doomer documented his many travels with topographically accurate sketches which he later turned into finished watercolors. This view represents the salt flats in the Breton fishing town of Le Croisic, where he spent time in 1645. Nearly thirty years later he produced this watercolor on a large sheet of ruled ledger paper showing the evaporation pools where sea salt was cultivated and a sky filled with subtle ink washes evoking the mutable light and atmosphere.
- Artist
- Lambert Doomer
- Title
- Salt Flats at Le Croisic
- Date
- ca. 1671-1673
- Place of Creation
- Holland
- Object Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brown and gray washes on ledger paper mounted on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 9 7/16 x 18 3/4 in. (24 x 47.6 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund and Gift of the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council
- Accession Number
- 2012.8
