Hôtel des Roches Noires in Trouville

A famous seaside resort on the Normandy coast, Trouville was one of the most popular holiday destinations for Parisian society at around this time. The elegant building is one of the plush, new holiday hotels on the Normandy coast, an area with which the painter had been familiar since childhood. In this painting, thanks to the rapid, expressive brushwork, the clouds appear foreshortened and the flags are fluttering as if in tatters in the wind. Even the figures, like the man raising his hat on the left, are sketchily captured with just a few brush strokes.