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Description: | Joséphine Bowes, the co-founder (with her husband) of the Bowes Museum, disliked sea voyages. She therefore spent time in the Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais areas whilst her husband went on business trips to England. She produced many canvases representing the cliffs, the fishermen's dwellings or landscapes in the hinterland. Here we find a path leading the eye to the background, a compositional device Joséphine Bowes often used, as well as trees and a large sunny sky, two other elements featuring in many of her compositions. The two figures allow the artist to give a sense of scale. | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bowes, Joséphine (French artist, 1825-1874) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8948... | Go to resource |
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