TitleChurch portal, Rouen
Artist
Kenyon Cox
(American, 1856 - 1919)
Date1878
MediumOil on composition board
DimensionsUnframed: 10 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.
Storage: 12 1/4 × 8 1/4 × 1 1/4 in.
SignedSigned on verso: "Kenyon Cox"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Allyn Cox, Caroline Cox Lansing, and Leonard Cox, 1959
Object number1616.10-P
Label TextWriting to his mother, Cox voiced his interest in the many churches of Rouen, specifically describing the one that appears to be pictured here: [block quote:]
There is one particularly, of which I must try to get a sketch tomorrow. It had a gothic front once; then a rennaissance [sic] portal was added; but much of this was left, squared out and never finished. Lastly a little slated and tiled house was built across, and into all the nooks, so as to leave only half a flamboyant window and two white pinnacles showing above. Then all this was allowed to grow old and wormeaten [sic] and grass-grown together, and finished off by flower pots on the projecting mouldings.
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