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Embankment Lagny under Flood Water
Presented by Mr and Mrs Julian Lousada 1938
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painting oil paint canvas
The Embankment of Lagny under Flood Water
support: 457 × 549 mm
Presented by Mr and Mrs Julian Lousada 1938
<p><b>Maxime Maufra</b><span> 1861-1918 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/maufra-the-embankment-of-lagny-under-flood-water-n04947" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04947</span></a> </span><b>Le Quai de Lagny inondé</b><span> (The Embankment at Lagny under Flood Water) 1908 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Maufra' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 18 x 21 5/8 (46 x 55)</span>
<br/><span>Presented by Mr and Mrs Julian Lousada 1938</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Durand-Ruel, Paris (purchased from the artist 2 April 1908); with Goupil Gallery, London; Mr and Mrs Julian Lousada, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Goupil Gallery Salon</i><span>, Goupil Gallery, London, October-November 1927 (139); </span><i>Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Modern Artists</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, July-September 1934 (64)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Arsène Alexandre, </span><i>Maxime Maufra: Peintre Marin et Rustique (1861-1918)</i><span> (Paris 1926), pp.108, 205 </span>
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<p><span>Painted early in 1908 during the flooding of the Marne at Lagny, sixteen miles east of Paris. There is another picture of the same view entitled 'The Marne at Lagny, Flood Time', painted a few yards further forward and showing the scene a little more to the right (Durand-Ruel photo no.6035). </span>
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<p><span>Maufra also made studies of the floods at Chelles, a short distance away, and at Gournay to the north of Paris. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.503-4, reproduced p.503</span>
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adults architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents figure flood France house Lagny natural features (non-UK) natural phenomena people places reflection residential river River Marne road townscape townscapes / man-made features water: inland weather