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View of Rouen from St. Catherine’s Hill

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Date

1821-1822

Artist

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/340849

Description

The French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix described the sparkling, jewel-toned watercolors of the British painter Bonington, with whom he shared a Paris studio, as "like diamonds." In this view of Rouen seen from the northeast, broad wet washes evoke the sunlit sky, a dark cathedral soars above the blotted colors of the city's haze, and exquisite touches of a fine brush suggest tiny figures and the masts of distant ships. A version of this view was reproduced in aquatint by Thales Fielding in N.-J. Lefebvre-Duruflé's Excursion sur les côtes et dans les ports de Normandie, published 1823–25. Medium: brush and watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Rouen, Normandy, France

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Landscapes & Seascapes

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