Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, presented in a period gilt composition frame.

Stretcher size 6 x 10 in.; Frame dimensions 14 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.

From the Estate of the Late Ruth Edgerton, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Born in Paris, Frederick Rondel, Sr. was a successful landscape and marine painter. He was living in Boston by 1855 and painted extensively throughout New England and as far as San Francisco.

Rondel is credited as the only art teacher Winslow Homer. After the Civil War, he accepted a faculty position at the National Academy of Design. He exhibited at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Boston Athenaeum.

Tear to canvas with associated paint loss; area of paint loss in lower left corner; surface grime; faint craquelure; age cracking and later gold paint to frame.