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Lot Essay
Wendy Baron discusses the present view as a much-studied Dieppe subject, 'Sickert painted the rue Notre Dame, which runs from the arcaded Quai Duquesne towards St Jacques in the background, many times in 1899, 1900 and again on commission in 1902'.
The primary oil version which was formerly in the collection of Morton Sands was gifted to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2001; another oil version is in the Château-Musée de Dieppe. Further oil examples are in the William Morris Museum, Walthamstow and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
The 'Winter' of the dedication is sometimes thought to refer to the season of the year; in fact John Strange Winter was the pseudonym of Sickert's friend in Dieppe, the novelist and journalist Mrs Stannard. This drawing includes the old woman of 126 as well as a horse (the cart is cut off on the left) and the booth seen in 126.11. (See W. Baron, op. cit., pp. 236-8).
John Rothenstein (op. cit., p. 11) commented, 'It was one of Sickert's favourite 'views' of Dieppe, looking right down the Rue Notre Dame, with the Arcades de la Poissonerie on the right and the Quai Duquesne on the left, and at the end of the narrow street the massive church towering above the clustering houses'.
The primary oil version which was formerly in the collection of Morton Sands was gifted to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2001; another oil version is in the Château-Musée de Dieppe. Further oil examples are in the William Morris Museum, Walthamstow and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
The 'Winter' of the dedication is sometimes thought to refer to the season of the year; in fact John Strange Winter was the pseudonym of Sickert's friend in Dieppe, the novelist and journalist Mrs Stannard. This drawing includes the old woman of 126 as well as a horse (the cart is cut off on the left) and the booth seen in 126.11. (See W. Baron, op. cit., pp. 236-8).
John Rothenstein (op. cit., p. 11) commented, 'It was one of Sickert's favourite 'views' of Dieppe, looking right down the Rue Notre Dame, with the Arcades de la Poissonerie on the right and the Quai Duquesne on the left, and at the end of the narrow street the massive church towering above the clustering houses'.