View of the River Seine from Chateau Gaillard, September 1911

Sir George Clausen RA (1852 - 1944)

RA Collection: Art

Clausen visited Normandy in 1911 and made studies of Chateau Gaillard, a 12th-century fortress built by Richard the Lionheart on a hill overlooking the River Seine at Les Andelys.

Clausen exhibited three watercolours of Chateau Gaillard at the Winter exhibitions of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours in 1911 and 1912, and a work entitled Chateau Gaillard at the Leicester Galleries in 1912 (no. 29). This drawing is most likely a preparatory sketch for one of these works.