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Creator:
Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Title:
Near Quillebeuf
Former Title(s):

Landscape near Quilleboeuf, France

Near Quilleboeuf

Near Quilleboeuf, c.1824-25
Date:
between 1824 and 1825
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 3/4 x 21 inches (42.5 x 53.3 cm), Frame: 22 1/2 × 27 inches (57.2 × 68.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.49
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1981.25.49FR
Subject Terms:
beach | boats | clouds | fence | hill | horses (animals) | landscape | sand | sea | ships | shore (landform) | sky | sunlight
Associated Places:
Eure | Europe | France | Haute-Normandie | Quillebeuf
Access:
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:562
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Unlike J.M.W. Turner, whose coasts carry the weight of high drama, Richard Parkes Bonington’s shore profiles are often almost completely flat, the horizon line kept daringly low, and the composition shorn of extraneous detail. There are some hints here of the influence of John Constable, whose success in Paris coincided exactly with the younger Bonington’s gold medal at the Salon of 1824, but the overall effect is one of calm—a fusion of personal observation of the French coast and Dutch masters of the seventeenth century.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2022


Unlike Turner, whose coasts carry the weight of high drama, Bonington's shore profiles are often almost completely flat, the horizon line kept daringly low, and the composition shorn of extraneous detail. There are some hints here of the influence of Constable, whose success in Paris coincided exactly with the younger Bonington's gold medal at the Salon of 1824, but the overall effect is one of calm-a fusion of personal observation of the French coast and Dutch masters of the seventeenth century.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005

YUAG European Galleries (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-12-01 - 2025-01-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Richard Parkes Bonington (Musée du Petit Palais, 1992-03-05 - 1992-05-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Richard Parkes Bonington (Yale Center for British Art, 1991-11-13 - 1992-01-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Romance and Reality (Wildenstein) (Wildenstein & Company, Inc., 1978-09-22 - 1978-12-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Spencer Alley, Views in Oil Paint by Richard Parkes Bonington, , , March 10,2018, http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2018/03/views-in-oil-paint-by-richard-parkes.html [Website]

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Pictures and Drawings by Richard Parkes Bonington and his Circle, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1937, no. 7, NJ18 B65 B87 1937 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Bonington, Phaidon, Oxford, 1989, pp. 96-97, no. 78, NJ18 B65 C67 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 24-25, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

A. Dubuisson, Richard Parkes Bonington, His life and work , John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1924, p. 193, NJ18 B65 +D8 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ralph Edwards, Richard Parkes Bonington and His Circle, Burlington Magazine, vol 71, London, July 1937, p. 36, N1 B87 71 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 137-8, no. II.22, pl. 113, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) [YCBA]

John Loughery, Minor Masters, Neglected Giants, The Hudson Review, vol 45, New York, Summer 1992, p. 289, Available online: JSTOR [ORBIS]

Micah Mattix, Prufrock: Neuromush, in Defense of Moderation, and Public Theology Today, https://www.weeklystandard.com/prufrock-neuromush-in-defense-of-moderation-and-public-theology-today/article/2009755 , The Weekly Standard, September 21, 2017, Available Online [ORBIS]

Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington : "On the pleasure of painting", , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1991, pp. 124-25, no. 34, NJ18 B65 N66 1991 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington : the complete paintings, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008, pp. 38, 212-213, no. 178, NJ18 B65 A12 N66 2008 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Adolf Paul Oppé, Review [ untitled ], Burlington Magazine, vol. 79, London, September 1941, pp. 99-100, pl. B, N1 +B87 79 (YCBA) Also available online at JSTOR. [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 67 (v.1), no. 80, pl. 28, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 29 (v.1)..., No. 93, pl. 8, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Carlos Peacock, Richard Parkes Bonington, Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1979, p. 43, NJ18 B65 P43 1979 (LC)+ (YCBA) [YCBA]

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 3 (v.1), no. 11, pl. 8, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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