The Discovery of Étretat – Monet and Various Contemporary Painters
I visited Frankfurt again, after two decades. My ex-colleagues Jörg and Sabrina spent wonderful time with me. On my last day with Sabrina, she took me to the Städel Museum to see the exhibition of Étretat , fabulous paintings by Claude Monet , Eugène Delacroix , Gustave Courbet , Henri Matisse , Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , Eugène Le Poittevin , as well as Camille Corot , Eugène Boudin and Elger Esser . Étretat is a picturesque seaside town on Normandy’s Alabaster Coast . Nature has carved unusual shapes out of the white cliffs. The dramatic white chalk cliffs with natural arches and the needle-like Aiguille rock were like a magnet, attracting numerous artists to capture the stunning scenes on canvas in the 19 th century. It played a pivotal role in the birth of modern painting. Eugène Isabey It is widely considered that Eugène Isabey is among the first painters to draw the breathtaking cliffs in the 1820s. Then came Eugene Le Pottevin . His lifelike sea bathing paintings were di...