Honfleur: Calvary  1830

The site of the Calvary, a shrine built in 1628 at the top of a cliff overlooking the medieval town of Honfleur, was popular in the nineteenth century among tourists, pilgrims, and people offering prayers for men at sea. Corot painted this work during a trip to Normandy, probably in 1830. [br]Its first known owner was the landscape painter Henri-Joseph Harpignies, whom Cor...