Étienne and Louis-Antonin Neurdein, Rouen Cathedral, ca.
The Getty painting shares its southwesterly view with ten other canvases Monet began at Mauquit’s address in early 1893. Compared to Levy’s shop, Mauquit’s vantage point was farther off to the right, allowing the artist to take in more of the north tower of the facade-the tour Saint-Romain-and in several cases the adjacent houses ( fig. In 1893, after momentarily returning to Louvet’s apartment and then finding Levy’s shop unavailable (on account of the inconvenience the painter had apparently caused the shopkeeper and his customers the previous year), 3 Monet procured an apartment above the novelty store of Édouard Mauquit, at 81, rue de Grand-Pont, near the southwestern corner of the cathedral square.
He then had the opportunity to set up an improvised studio a few doors down at 23, place de la Cathédrale, in the shop of Fernand Levy, who dealt in “lingerie et modes.” This address offered Monet a more oblique viewpoint, which corresponds to the majority of the paintings he began in 1892 ( fig. This apartment afforded him an almost direct frontal view ( fig. Louvet, a proprietor of a chemiserie shop, at 31, place de la Cathédrale. He painted first, for a couple of weeks, from an apartment loaned to him by J. 2 Over the course of his two extended sojourns, he would represent the cathedral from three different locations across the main square. He began by approaching the structure tentatively, from several angles, before concentrating on the main facade in February 1892. Monet tested various vantage points over the course of the series. Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, the Portal and Tour Saint-Romain, Morning Effect, 1893–95.
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