Lot 429
Alfred R. Waud (American/New Orleans, 1828-1891), "Hotel Dieu Near Southwest Pass", watercolor, c. 1871, signed "A.R. Waud" lower left, title and signature inscribed on separate piece of paper, sight 13. 75in. x 20.5in. E5000/7000 Alfred R. Waud was born in London, England in 1828, and came to the United States around 1858. Waud became a staff artist for Harper's Weekly and was a very prolific Civil War artist/correspondent. After the war, he toured the South for Harper's,and in 1871 worked briefly for Every Saturday, a Boston journal. This watercolor of "Hotel Dieu" near Southwest Pass in the Louisiana marsh was executed during his stint with "Every Saturday." Accompanying the painting is one of the original Every Saturday journals dated June 3, 1871. In the article on page 525 by Ralph Keeler and A. R. Waud, they describe their first impressions of "Hotel Dieu." "?Turning into a little bayou, we came to a great flat-boat sided up and roofed over for the boarding and lodging house of the men employed upon the lighthouse. This is called, for what reason we were not told, the Hotel Dieu, but we cannot resist a lingering impression that the workmen were deceiving us and that we really have seen Noah's Ark?" This watercolor was exhibited in February, 1875 at the National Academy of Design in New York City and in March, 1875 at the Brooklyn Art Association. Copies of the catalogue pages listing this painting are included with the piece.
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