Deauville Beach
René-François-Xavier Prinet (Vitry-le-François 1861 – Bourbonne-les-Bains 1946)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
305 x 445 mm
Place of origin
Deauville
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732358
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Deauville Beach by Rene François Xavier Prinet (Vitry-le-François 1861 – Bourbonne-les-Bains 1946), signed: X Prinet, circa 1880. Ladies sit on chairs on the beach at angles to one another. One looks out to sea holding a parasol, on the left, with her back to the viewer. Another three are grouped together in the centre and couple greet one another, attended by a man in a red jacket, on the right. Behind him are a row of beach huts.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (The National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed: 'C. Pisarro' [?]at an angle, lower left Recto: Signed, lower right : X Prinet
Makers and roles
René-François-Xavier Prinet (Vitry-le-François 1861 – Bourbonne-les-Bains 1946), artist