Rouen, from Bon Secours
Joseph Pennell American
Not on view
After a visit to the French cathedral towns of Rouen, Beauvais and Amiens in 1907, Pennell produced this sweeping river view where steep terraced slopes plunge at left, and a winding river leads the eye toward the distant city. The foreground is punctuated by man-made elements—bridges and a train viaduct—constrasting with the distant medieval city and its gothic towers. Within a year, the artist would move to New York and address the booming urban scene in America with a sensibility honed by appreciation for medieval precedents.
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