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Creator:
Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Title:
Beached Vessels and a Wagon near Trouville [2008, Noon, Richard Parks Bonington: The Complete Paintings, catalogue raisonné]
Former Title(s):

Beached Vessels and a Wagon, near Trouville, France

A Coast Scene in Northern France with a Horse and Waggon, c. 1824-6
Date:
ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (37.1 x 52.4 cm), Frame: 20 1/4 × 26 3/8 × 3 inches (51.4 × 67 × 7.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1986.29.1
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1986.29.1FR
Subject Terms:
beach | blue | broken | clouds | clouds | coastline | horses (animals) | light | luggers | ocean | ruins | sails | sand | sea | seascape | ships | shore (landform) | sky | vessels (watercraft) | wagon
Associated Places:
Basse-Normandie | Calvados | France | Trouville
Access:
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1287
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Born near Nottingham, Richard Parkes Bonington moved with his family to Calais at age fifteen and then to Paris the following year. Although he trained briefly in the studio of the history painter Antoine-Jean Gros, he seems to have been largely self-taught as a painter in oils and his inclination was toward landscape rather than history painting. His entire career as an oil painter lasted for only five years before he died of tuberculosis. But the brilliance, fluency, and sparkling naturalism of his paintings won considerable acclaim, and his reputation only grew after his early death.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016


The motif of the horse-drawn wagon may have been suggested by the tremendous ovation John Constable received in Paris for The Hay Wain at the previous year's Salon, where Bonington himself won a gold medal. By this time, he had mastered the effects of scale, airiness, and breadth that are said to characterize the skies of northern France, as well as the distinctive shapes and profiles of Normandy fishing boats and wet sand at low tide, which is here represented with unusual verity.

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]

The Lens of Impressionism - Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 (Dallas Museum of Art, 2010-02-21 - 2010-05-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Lens of Impressionism - Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 (University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2009-10-10 - 2010-01-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

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]

Exhibition in Memory of Geoffrey Agnew (Thos. Agnew & Sons, 1988-06-01 - 1988-07-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Carole McNamara, The lens of impressionism, photography and painting along the Normandy coast, 1850-1874 , University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Manchester New York [Lanham, Md.], 2009, p. 41, 193, N72 P5 M37 2009 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington : "On the pleasure of painting", , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1991, pp. 141..., no. 44, NJ18 B65 N66 1991 + (YCBA) [YCBA]


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