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Charles Vacher, N.W.S. (1818-1883)

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Charles Vacher, N.W.S. (1818-1883)
The Fête of the Marriage of the Adriatic, Venice
signed and dated 'C. Vacher 1848.' (lower left) and further inscribed 'C. VACHER. 4. BOLTONS/West Brompton, LONDON' (on the backboard)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
40½ x 50¾ in. (102.9 x 128.9 cm.)
in the original frame

H.R. Hammons, 67 Queen's Park Parade, Northampton; Christie's, London, 2 August 1956, lot 177 (sold 35 gns to Thomas Saunders).

Specialist note

This picture may be one of three Venetian scenes exhibited by Vacher at the New Watercolour Society in 1848: nos. 100, 227 and 271. The subject is the annual festival at which the Doge of Venice was escorted out into the lagoon with a regatta of boats, and threw a ring into the waters, signifying his symbolic marriage with the Adriatic.