A Miller's Carriage (c. 1895): Art, History and Details

A Miller's Carriage (c. 1895) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Albert-Charles Lebourg (French, 1849–1928).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Albert Rouen was known for his work in charcoal, the medium used for this drawing. It likely depicts a scene from his native Rouen, a port city in northern France. He examined the city and provincial life around it frequently in his works. Here, four horses pull a carriage before a bridge, likely along the banks of the Seine River.

Object facts

• Title: A Miller's Carriage
• Date: c. 1895
• Creator attribution: Albert-Charles Lebourg (French, 1849–1928)
• Culture: France, 19th-20th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: black and white chalk with stumping on beige wove paper
• Dimensions: Sheet: 33.2 x 49.7 cm (13 1/16 x 19 9/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2015.449

A detail from the museum

Albert Lebourg was the leader of an artistic movement called the Rouen School for the fact that they worked independently and outside the Parisian art scene.

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

View the collection record

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