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Drawing, Musée du Louvre
rf5329
Etching, Delteil
112
13
.
Les bateaux à vapeur (Gare aux vapeurs)
The Steamboats or Watch Out for the Steamers
Pen and ink on
papier calque,
5
1
⁄
8
by
7
5
⁄
16
inches (
13
x
18
.
6
cm)
Redrawn in pencil on verso
In the visual arts at the middle of the nineteenth century representa-
tions of steamships often indicated the idea of progress. Daubigny’s
encounters with steam boats along the rivers of France did not have
such a positive association; the waves made by the larger boats cause
problems for
Le Botin
.