Entretat
July, 1858
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and white gouache, over traces of graphite, on blue wove paper
Dimensions
17.3 × 25.1 cm (6 13/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83336
Art Historical Context
Clarkson Stanfield’s *Entretat* (July 1858) captures the dramatic coastline of Étretat, a small fishing village on Normandy’s northern shore that was becoming a favored destination for artists and travelers in the mid-nineteenth century. A leading British marine painter of the Romantic era, Stanfield was celebrated for his theatrical sense of light and weather; this intimate sheet, made during one of his later sketching tours, distills those interests into a compact study of cliffs, sea, and sky. Executed in pen and brown ink with brush-applied wash and touches of white gouache on blue paper,...