Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

Stanislas Lépine french , 1835 – 1892 . Panoramic View of Rouen ( Vue panoramique de Rouen ) c. 1876 – 1880 Oil on cradled panel 9½ x 13 ¼ inches ( 24 . 1 x 33 . 7 cm) Signed lower left

provenance Tedesco, Paris Mazeran, Paris Private collection Jeffrey Archer His sale, Christie’s South Kensington, June 28 , 2011 , lot 50 Acquired at the above literature

Schmit, Robert, Stanislas Lepine, and Manuel Schmit. Stanislas Lepine, 1835–1892: Catalogue Raisonne De L’œuvre Peint . Paris: Editions Galerie Schmit, 1993 . no. 671 , illustrated p. 273

A popular view among painters, Rouen is depicted here from the northeast with the Cathedral spire in the distance. A similar view in watercolor by R.P. Bonington painted in 1821 is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. More than thirty views of the Rouen Cathedral were famously painted by Claude Monet in 1894 .

Richard Parkes Bonington, View of Rouen from St. Catherine’s Hill , 1821–22 . Watercolor on paper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.277