Tag: Navires
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01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings, Edmond Marie Petitjean’s Ships at the Port of Antwerp – With Footnotes, #219
Antwerp’s potential as a seaport was recognized by Napoleon Bonaparte and he ordered the construction of Antwerp’s first lock and dock in 1811. Called the Bonaparte Dock, it was joined by a second dock – called the Willem Dock after the Dutch King – in 1813. When the Belgian Revolution broke out in 1830, there…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #99
Eugène Boudin, (1824–1898) Navires dans le Port à Honfleur/ Ships in the Port at Honfleur, c. 1856 Oil on wood panel Height: 20.3 cm (8 in). Width: 26.5 cm (10.4 in). Princeton University Art Museum Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the…
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