A Fish-market near Boulogne
Richard Parkes Bonington1824
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, CT, United States
Richard Parkes Bonington lived in France for most of his short life, training in the studio of Antoine Jean Gros, where he met and befriended Eugène Delacroix. He began painting in oils in about 1823, and his earliest oil paintings are predominantly of scenes along the coasts of Normandy and Picardy. While it had previously been suggested that A Fish Market near Boulogne was one of the paintings that caused a sensation at the Paris Salon of 1824, and for which Bonington was awarded a gold medal, this now seems less likely. Nonetheless, A Fish Market is without question one of the most ambitious and accomplished of his early paintings.
Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2022
- Title: A Fish-market near Boulogne
- Creator: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828, British
- Creator Lifespan: 1802/1828
- Creator Nationality: British
- Creator Gender: male
- Date Created: 1824
- Physical Dimensions: 32 3/8 x 48 1/4 inches (82.2 x 122.6 cm) Frame: 39 1/8 x 55 x 3 1/8 inches (99.4 x 139.7 x 7.9 cm)
- Subject Keywords: beach, town, port, cart, carriage, boats, ships, barrels (containers), baskets, bags (containers), genre subject, cityscape, costume, buildings, houses, shore (landform), sea, people, selling, purchasing, sand, fish, buyers, marine art
- External Link: See this work of art on the Yale Center for British Art website
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Repository Name: Yale Center for British Art
- Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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