- Title:
- Seascape with Figures on Cliffs
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- This small painting of a girl in blue and a woman in a black coat standing on cliffs as they look out to sea was previously titled View over the Mediterranean. However, it has recently been proposed that this is a view of Trouville in Normandy, which was a popular destination for various artists including Boudin and Monet.Although Corot went to Normandy three times in his early career, and also regularly visited the area towards the end of his life, it is unlikely that he painted this picture. Despite some similarity with his later Normandy paintings, the picture has little in common stylistically with known works by Corot and lacks the quality of his work. The absence of interaction between the two people on the shore and the rather crude painting in some areas, especially the sea, suggests this is instead the work of a follower or student of Corot.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1972-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1972
- Date - latest:
- 1972
- Acquisition source:
- Rachel F. and Jean I. Alexander
- Associated concept:
- seascapes
- Associated concept:
- boats
- Credit line:
- Presented by the Misses Rachel F. and Jean I. Alexander; entered the Collection, 1972
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 4/287/275/575/mid_N_6416_00_000024.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/169/729/944/mid_N-6416-00-000018.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 21.60
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 36.80
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production date:
- 1890s
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1890
- Date - latest:
- 1899
- Object production person:
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Person's birth date:
- 1796
- Person's death date:
- 1875
- Object production place:
- France
- Other number:
- NG6416
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EGI-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG6416
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-0308-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng36416
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- coastal scenes
- Style:
- Barbizon
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Nineteenth Century French Paintings
- Reference details:
- 212-8
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 145
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: January 1971 - December 1972
- Reference details:
- 39
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Désir de rivage, de Granville à Dieppe: Le Littoral normand vu par les peintres entre 1820 et 1945
- Reference details:
- 186
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Presented by the Misses Rachel F. and Jean I. Alexander: Seventeen Paintings for the National Gallery
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Corot Forgeries: Is the Artist Responsible?
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Corot: Tableaux Faux
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0eabcb76-d16d-3a77-b991-c660bd58803c, National Gallery, CC BY
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