View of Rouen from St. Catherine’s Hill, 1821–22, Brush and watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite, sheet: 5 13/16 x 9 1/16 in. (14.8 x 23 cm), Drawings, Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London), 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
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