id: 166450 accession number: 2008.205 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.205 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:11.042000 Voyages Pittoresques et Romantique dans l'Ancienne France, Normandie: Tour du Gros-Horlage, Évreux, 1824. Godefroy Engelmann (French, 1788–1839), after Richard Parkes Bonington (British, 1802–1828). Lithograph tipped in to mount; sheet: 50.8 x 34.5 cm (20 x 13 9/16 in.); image: 33.6 x 21 cm (13 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Bonebrake 2008.205 title: Voyages Pittoresques et Romantique dans l'Ancienne France, Normandie: Tour du Gros-Horlage, Évreux title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1824 creation date earliest: 1824 creation date latest: 1824 current location: creditline: Gift of John Bonebrake copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: lithograph tipped in to mount department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Curtis 19 --- CREATORS * Godefroy Engelmann (French, 1788–1839) - artist * Richard Parkes Bonington (British, 1802–1828) - artist Richard Parkes Bonington was born in Arnold near Nottingham, the son of a portrait painter of indifferent talent and quixotic temperament. In autumn 1817 the family established a lace manufactur-ing business in Calais, where Bonington studied watercolor painting briefly with the Anglo-French artist Louis Francia (1772-1839). Two years later he enrolled in the atelier of Gros (q.v.) but was an irregular student. His disillusionment with Gros lead to a stormy departure in 1822. In the same year he exhibited at the Paris Salon topographical watercolors from the first of his several tours of Normandy. These established his repu-tation as a landscape painter and drafts-man of medieval architecture. However, the group of five marine paintings submitted to the 1824 Salon, for which he was awarded a gold medal, confirmed his preeminence in the French romantic school. Bonington made the first of sev-eral trips to London in 1825, after which he shared a studio with Eugène Delacroix (q.v.) in Paris until his departure for a brief tour of Northern Italy in April 1826. It was Delacroix who persuaded Bonington to expand his interests beyond landscape to include figural subjects. In the final two hectic years of his life, Bonington produced mostly Venetian views and historical and literary illustra-tions, which he exhibited at both the 1827-28 Paris Salon and the 1828 Royal Academy exhibitions. He died in London from tuberculosis in September 1828. Despite the brevity of his career, Bonington's protean originality and dazzling virtuoso style inspired a host of French and British imitators, while his relationships with Delacroix and the landscape painters Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) and Paul Huet (1803-1869) would be of cardinal importance to the subsequent development of French painting. --- measurements: Sheet: 50.8 x 34.5 cm (20 x 13 9/16 in.); Image: 33.6 x 21 cm (13 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.) state of the work: II/II edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 135693 Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France, Normandie: Tour du Gros-Horloge, Evreux, 1824. Richard Parkes Bonington (British, 1802-1828). Lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1959.23 relationship: --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.205/2008.205_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.205/2008.205_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.205/2008.205_full.tif