Project Description
Oil on panel
Dimensions : 17,5 cm x 37,5 cm
Signed lower left Roger Rassing ? dated 15 (for 1915)
Alabaster Coast in Quiberville 1915
The Alabaster Coast is a choronym which corresponds to a French coastal region of the Cauchois located on the English Channel. Made of 130 kilometers of maritime borders and cliffs interspersed with valleys, it constitutes almost the entire coast of Seine-Maritime. Since 2009, a part is classified as a Natura site 2000 under the name littoral cauchois.
It is called the Alabaster Coast and not the Chalk Coast, in reference to the milky white color that the sea sometimes takes at the foot of high cliffs when the chalk they are made of begins to dissolve..
Between the portions of cliffs ranging from 30 at 120 m height (of which the most renowned are those of Étretat and the highest those of the Tréport), Valleuses were formed, or valleys suspended from small coastal rivers, and exceptionally some sand accumulation sectors, clays and pebbles (many the Somme).
Quiberville sur mer
Located halfway between Dieppe and Saint Valéry en Caux, Quiberville benefits from an ideal situation on the coast and at the mouth of the Saâne.
Seaside resort from 1895
Its architecture walks you between seaside villas and fishing houses. Prized from the XIXth century with the advent of the Bains de Mer in Dieppe, the town of Quiberville sur Mer acquires facilities to become a real seaside resort in 1895. Bathhouse, cabins, hotels, small houses for rent and local shops then flourished on the beach, and the fishermen's houses are surrounded by sumptuous seaside villas in the image of La Rafale.
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