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An estuarial French port scene at low tide, possibly at Honfleur in Normandy, or a similar location, with two fishing boats lying dried out on the shore in the foreground. Several men can be seen working on the boat with red sails. Sharply gabled houses rise up to the right looking out across the river or inlet, which is spanned by a stone bridge leading up and left out of the frame in the middle distance. This implies that the viewer has his back to the sea and that the houses face a similar scene on the opposite side of the bridge. Steps descend to the shore at the junction of the bridge and the quay wall, centre right, with shops just visible in the ground floors of the houses behind. The artist was a well known French genre painter, who in 1820 travelled first to Normandy and then to Britain.
Title
Port Scene
Date
c.1830
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 62.5 x W 50.5 cm
Accession number
BHC2368
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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