Antoine Vollon

watercolor landscape of shoreline with sailboats and buildings in the background
Landscape Drawings in The Frick Collection
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Depicting quotidian life in the country, urban scenes, and imagined views of timeless Arcadian realms, this selection of rarely exhibited landscape drawings from the Frick’s small but superb collection of works on paper reveals thematic continuities across four centuries. The presentation featured the Frick’s newly acquired View of Dieppe Harbor of 1873 by Antoine Vollon, the generous gift of Dr. Carol Forman Tabler.

Watercolor of a seascape
Landscape Drawings in The Frick Collection
Watercolor of a seascape
Frick Acquires a Watercolor by Antoine Vollon: View of Dieppe Harbor
Link to video of Carol Forman Tabler lecture
Carol Forman Tabler: "Vollon Revealed"

One of the Frick’s most recent acquisitions is View of Dieppe Harbor, a splendid watercolor and graphite drawing by Antoine Vollon, featured in this summer’s presentation Landscape Drawings in The Frick Collection. Tabler, the preeminent scholar of Vollon and the donor of the work, discusses little-known aspects of the career of the nineteenth-century artist, a still-life specialist who had a passion for landscape.