ID: 700008207 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008207	Record Type: Movable Work

The Salt Marshes near Trouville (drawing (visual work); Richard Parkes Bonington (British painter, 1802 - 1828) ; 1826; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2009.88)

Note: With a low viewpoint that emphasizes the open sky, Bonington captures the atmosphere of this shoreline scene, including calm mirror-like water and a blue-tinged distance. The place depicted is a salt marsh close to Trouville, the Basse-Normandie seaside resort in north-western France. Trouville became an increasingly popular destination and a beloved sketching place for artists during the 1800s: Paul Huet and Eugène Isabey worked there in the 1820s alongside Bonington (sometimes literally), and later Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin, and Claude Monet painted the beach and its fashionable visitors.The pencil inscription on the back gives some clues concerning the purpose of the watercolor and the circumstances under which it was produced: Thomas Shotter Boys (1803-1874), the English artist then resident in Paris, writes that Bonington made the watercolor to show him the place where crabs could be caught (salt marshes were excellent spots for such activity). Boys' inscription is dated 1826, and gives the location of the gift as the rue des Martyrs, Paris. Bonington, who had been sharing a studio with Eugène Delacroix, moved to a room of his own at 11 rue des Martyrs by April 1826, and remained there until the end of 1827 (Noon, 2008, p. 174, no. 144. In fact the rue de Martyrs in Montmartre was home to many artist's studios, including those of Horace Vernet, also at no. 11, a building owned by J-R Auguste, and Gericault at no. 23; between 1844-1857 Delacroix was at no. 58, and Gauguin was born at no. 56 in 1848).Bonington made an oil painting of the salt marshes near Trouville from a nearby spot, and there is also a watercolor by Thomas Shotter Boys himself taken from that same viewpoint, with a crab pot in the foreground. The exact relationship between these works is not known, but it is likely that the Boys watercolor and Bonington oil were made en plein-air at about the same time. Bonington's bravura watercolor gift for Boys was probably made in anticipation of a visit to the area. It is an important record of their closeness during this period, and of Bonington's extraordinary abilities.

Titles:

The Salt Marshes near Trouville (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1826

Creator Display:

Richard Parkes Bonington (British painter, 1802 - 1828) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman Bonington, Richard Parkes (English painter, 1802-1828) [500024171]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.88

Other: Creation: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Watercolor over graphite

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

Dimensions: 10.8 x 22.2 cm (4 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.)

Cultures:

British (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	marshes [300008903]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), landscapes (environments), natural landscapes, bodies of water (natural), bodies of freshwater, <bodies of freshwater by biome>, wetlands) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Inscribed on the back in pencil, 'drawn for me by RP Bonington / to show me the place of Chancre. / 1826. rue des Martyrs. Thos. S. Boys'

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Salt Marshes near Trouville	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)