France, (1818-1879)
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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
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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
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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.
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]