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Rouen, View from Bon-Secours

1821–22
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Rouen, View from Bon-Secours
  • Artist: Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London)
  • Date: 1821–22
  • Medium: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over graphite
  • Dimensions: sheet: 5 13/16 x 9 1/16 in. (14.8 x 23 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, Harry G. Sperling Fund, and Karen B. Cohen Fund, 1996
  • Object Number: 1996.277
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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