Artists (painters, photographers, etc) from all over the world have come, and are still coming, to Normandy to paint. The fantastic light, a plethora of subjects and the ease of getting there made it a hotspot for all sorts of artists.
The city of Cherbourg, like Le Havre, Caen, Deauville, Trouville-sur-Mer or Dieppe, saw a large share of these artists.
Below is a map with the places where these artists created their works of art. I’ve only listed one place per city they painted in, and this map is limited to Cherbourg and its surroundings since there were many artists to catalog.
NOTE: Click on an “art” icon on the map below to see a painting of the artist, their name and then click on the artist’s name at the bottom of the painting to see all his paintings of that area (in a new window).
NOTE: You can zoom in and out of the map! BUT remember, that one icon may hide another one if you are zoomed out too much.
Here are the artists we found who worked in Cherbourg. A link “⇠” will show when that artist’s works has been published on our site. A “*” indicates that the artist did not work in Cherbourg itself, instead worked in nearby places.
- 🇺🇸 Boggs, Frank Myers * ⇠
- 🇷🇺 Bogolyubov, Alexey (Alexei) * ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Bonington, Richard Parkes ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Boudin, Eugene-Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Bourgeois, Constant ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Bruce, Mary Louisa, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cotman, John Sell ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Crepin, Louis-Philippe ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Friesz, Othon ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Garneray, Ambroise Louis ⇠
- 🇷🇺 Gritsenko, Nikolai ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Gudin, Theodore ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Le Gray, Gustave ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Leitch, Richard Principal ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Mathon, Emile-Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Matisse, Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Mozin, Charles Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Noel, Jules Achille ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Signac, Paul ⇠
- 🇧🇪 Timmermans, Louis-Etienne ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Turner, William * ⇠
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