Lot 687: FREDERIC ROUX (FRENCH 1805-1874). "RUBICON, TAKING

FREDERIC ROUX (FRENCH 1805-1874). "RUBICON, TAKING A PILOT OFF CAPE LA HEVE, FEBY 23, 1837." Built at Medford in 1835, 490 tons, the "Rubicon" was put into service in the New Orleans-Havre cotton trade. Watercolor on paper, 17 1/4 x 23 1/2inches. Signed and dated "Frederic Roux, au Havre 1837" l.r. The reverse inscribed and signed "Frederic Roux/ hydrographe & peintre de Marine/ petit quay Notre Dame N.13/ au Havre/ en Mar 5/ 1837." In a gilt period frame.

Literature: Frederic Roux painted a second portrait of the Rubicon in stormy seas, illustrated in Gaubert and Johnson, "Ships and Shipping: A Collection of Pictures... Painted by Antoine Roux and His Sons," 1925, p. 181.