Rouen, View from Bon-Secours

Richard Parkes Bonington British

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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.

Rouen, View from Bon-Secours, Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London), Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over graphite

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Rouen, View from Bon-Secours, Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London), Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over graphite
Rouen, View from Bon-Secours, Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London), Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over graphite
Rouen, View from Bon-Secours, Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London), Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over graphite

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