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Fécamp is a fishing town on a part of the Normandy coast known for its high limestone cliffs. Chintreuil visited the area in 1861 and painted a number of open air oil studies on paper, including this one, which was later stuck down on canvas. Pinpricks in each corner of the paper suggest it was painted on site. The vertical format is rather unusual for a landscape, but it allows Chintreuil to focus on the structure of the rocky coastline, from which the small houses seem to emerge. The very high horizon prefigures a compositional device used by Pissarro and Cézanne. Chintreuil studied in the studio of Delaroche from 1842, but it was Corot, whom he met the following year, who encouraged him to paint outdoors. Normandy was a popular painting location for artists including Boudin and Impressionist painters, such as Monet, who had been working there since the mid-1850s.
Title
House on the Cliffs near Fécamp
Date
probably 1861
Medium
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Measurements
H 41 x W 31.7 cm
Accession number
NG4382
Acquisition method
Bought by the Tate Gallery, 1928; transferred, 1956
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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