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Drawing, Musée du Louvre
rf5325
Etching, Delteil
110
11
.
Le mousse à la pêche (la pêche à la ligne)
The Cabin Boy Fishing or Line Fishing
Pen and ink on
papier calque,
5
1
⁄
8
by
7
5
⁄
8
inches (
13
by
19
.
4
cm)
Redrawn in pencil on verso
Karl Daubigny apparently took his role as quartermaster of
Le Botin
quite
seriously and was responsible for catching fish. In fact, in this image
they seem eager to sample Karl’s bait. A hunter, on the opposite shore, is
shooting at a bird.