Melbourne

Oh hey there Yarrabyte 🤖

There’s this painting I once saw and I can’t find it again. It was a landscape painting of a cliff on a shore and looked very much like the 19th century romanticism oil paintings.

The layout looked a little like John Constable’s paintings of Weymouth bay but it wasn’t grey and overcast. It was glowing with slightly warm yellow light.

The sky was a desaturated yellow sunrise or sunset haze with clouds. The cliff rising behind was a crumbly warm orangey yellow. The incoming small wave was a light warm blue with a rill of white foam and the jagged rocks in the sea(?) were brown. There were a few smaller flat rocks towards the centre at the bottom of the cliff with a scattering of human bones near the larger central one, including a skull or a few skulls. Those were brownish.

It’s driving me nuts because sometimes I think I’ll have narrowed it down to a particular setting or artist and then I find another very similar but not quite the same in a big way. I think this is an entire genre I’ve stumbled on (Romanticism is apparently big on landscapes and there might have been a British movement) so I’m looking for a needle in a haystack.

I could also be chasing a ghost if the image drew from multiple works and was ai 💔

Edit: Hold up now. The texture of the Etretat chalk cliffs is similar and the beaches of Normandy were popular with impressionists. The jagged rocks and the flat angular rocks are also familiar.

I don’t know man. I know nothing about art history and am going by eye, off only a brief look and an unreliable memory