#barfleur

[illustratus]

The Wreck of the Blanche Nef — by Princess Louise

[mich-bois]

LA VIGIE.

Barfleur.

[paintingsandhistory]

The Battle of La Hogue

Artist: Benjamin West (American, 1738-1820)

Date: 1778

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Description

Seventeen years after Benjamin West settled in England, a London newspaper's review of the 1780 Royal Academy exhibition stated that The Battle of La Hogue "exceeds all that ever came from Mr. West's pencil." In 1692, Louis XIV of France had mounted an ill-fated attempt to return James II, a fellow Catholic, to the throne of England. In response, Britain and her Protestant allies, the Dutch, massed their fleets and engaged the enemy for five days off the northern French coast near La Hogue. Benjamin West condensed the events of the long battle into one dramatic composition that, by employing much artistic or poetic license, is largely propaganda.

Standing in a boat at the left, for instance, Vice Admiral George Rooke embodies heroic command with his upright posture and raised sword. Yet, in order to survey the maneuvers, he undoubtedly gave orders from a distance. Beached in the center distance is the French flagship, the Royal Sun. Actually burned and sunk a few days before this encounter, the Royal Sun is here deliberately refloated -- only to be run against the cliffs so that West might symbolize the French defeat. This complex, multi-figured panorama is an excellent example of West's influential early style, and of the balanced designs and carefully blended brushwork of eighteenth-century neoclassicism.

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Kihightide

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[ernestdescalsartwok]

BARFLEUR-PINTURA-ART-ACUARELAS-FARO-PUERTO-PESQUERO-PUEBLOS-NORMANDIA-FRANCIA-BARCAS-MARINA-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS por Ernest Descals Por Flickr: BARFLEUR-PINTURA-ART-ACUARELAS-FARO-PUERTO-PESQUERO-PUEBLOS-NORMANDIA-FRANCIA-BARCAS-MARINA-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS- Pintar para encontrar la máxima simplicidad mediante el uso de las acuarelas sobre papel de 50 x 70 centímetros, los puertos pesqueros de la Normandia en el norte de Francia son capaces de suministrar una gran cantidad de motivos en los disfrutar de la plástica libre, con trazos muy sueltos se forma la escena marinera en el puerto pesquero de BARFLEUR, barcas amarradas junto al faro y conjunto de piedras en el primer término que delimitan la franja del agua del mar bajo un cielo muy atmósferico. Pintura de acuarela del artista pintor Ernest Descals.

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"Me"

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Paul Blanvillain (1891 - 1965) - Barfleur in Cotentin. 1931. Oil on canvas.