Eure | Europe | France | Haute-Normandie | Quillebeuf
Currently On View:
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Exhibition History:
YUAG European Galleries (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-12-01 - 2025-01-15)In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)Richard Parkes Bonington (Musée du Petit Palais, 1992-03-05 - 1992-05-17)Richard Parkes Bonington (Yale Center for British Art, 1991-11-13 - 1992-01-19)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)Romance and Reality (Wildenstein) (Wildenstein & Company, Inc., 1978-09-22 - 1978-12-07)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Pictures and Drawings by Richard Parkes Bonington and his Circle, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1937, no. 7, NJ18 B65 B87 1937 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Bonington, Phaidon, Oxford, 1989, pp. 96-97, no. 78, NJ18 B65 C67 + (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 24-25, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)A. Dubuisson, Richard Parkes Bonington : His life and work, , John Lane, London, 1924, p. 193, NJ18 B65 +D8 (YCBA)Ralph Edwards, Richard Parkes Bonington and His Circle, Burlington Magazine, vol 71, London, July 1937, p. 36, N1 B87 71 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 137-138, no. II.22, pl. 113, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)John Loughery, Minor Masters, Neglected Giants, The Hudson Review, vol 45, New York, Summer 1992, p. 289, Available online: JSTORMicah Mattix, Prufrock: Neuromush, in Defense of Moderation, and Public Theology Today, https://www.weeklystandard.com/prufrock-neuromush-in-defense-of-moderation-and-public-theology-today/article/2009755 , The Weekly Standard, September 21, 2017, Available OnlinePatrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington : "On the pleasure of painting", , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1991, pp. 124-25, no. 34, NJ18 B65 N66 1991 + (YCBA)Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington : the complete paintings, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008, pp. 38, 212-213, no. 178, NJ18 B65 A12 N66 2008 + (YCBA)Adolf Paul Oppé, Review [ untitled ], Burlington Magazine, vol. 79, London, September 1941, pp. 99-100, pl. B, N1 +B87 79 (YCBA) Also available online at JSTOR.Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 67 (v.1), no. 80, pl. 28, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 29, 93 (v.1), 8 (v. 2), No. 93, pl. 8, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Carlos Peacock, Richard Parkes Bonington, Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1979, p. 43, NJ18 B65 P43 1979 (LC)+ (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 3 (v.1), no. 11, pl. 8, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Unlike J.M.W. Turner, whose coasts carry the weight of high drama, Richard Parkes Bonington’s shore profiles are often almost completely flat, the horizon line kept daringly low, and the composition shorn of extraneous detail. There are some hints here of the influence of John Constable, whose success in Paris coincided exactly with the younger Bonington’s gold medal at the Salon of 1824, but the overall effect is one of calm—a fusion of personal observation of the French coast and Dutch masters of the seventeenth century. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2022