- Title:
- Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- Seurat painted his first coastal scenes and seascapes at Grandcamp in Normandy which he visited in the summer of 1885. The rocky peak of Le Bec du Hoc lay to the east. It was a spectacular geological feature which was greatly reduced by bombardment during the Second World War. Seurat made an oil sketch on the spot (Canberra, Australian National Gallery), which served as a study for this painting. In 1888, prior to exhibiting the painting for the fourth time, the artist reworked its surface with fine touches of paint, and also added the painted border, modulating the colours in relation to the painting itself.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Credit line:
- On loan from Tate: Purchased 1952
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 64.80
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 81.60
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- Oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- 1885
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1885
- Date - latest:
- 1885
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- Georges Seurat
- Person's birth date:
- 1859
- Person's death date:
- 1891
- Other number:
- L728
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0DCL-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- L728
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- N06067
- Other number type:
- Lender Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-012P-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- l2728
- 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:
- pointillist
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 786
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Radiance : the Neo-Impressionists /Marina Ferretti Bocquillon ; with contributions by Ted Gott and Elizabeth Cross.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 34)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Eblouissants reflets : cent chefs-d'œuvre Impressionnistes /auteurs du catalogue, Sylvain Amic [and others].
- Reference details:
- Ill. fig. 36 (p. 58)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Van Gogh at work / Marije Vellekoop ; with contributions by Nienke Bakker … [et al.].
- Reference details:
- Ill. fig. 180 (p. [132])
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/77478b47-8685-3e11-91d8-4c7db5f48cdd
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/77478b47-8685-3e11-91d8-4c7db5f48cdd, National Gallery, CC BY
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