Mesnil-Val près du Tréport Engraving

Emile-Frédéric Nicolle produced his first etching at the age of twenty-four. A painter and watercolourist, he participated in the 1878 Universal Exhibition and several times in the Salons des Artistes Français in Paris with his engravings.
His engraved work can be divided into two parts: on the one hand...

Emile-Frédéric Nicolle produced his first etching at the age of twenty-four. A painter and watercolourist, he participated in the 1878 Universal Exhibition and several times in the Salons des Artistes Français in Paris with his engravings.
His engraved work can be divided into two parts: on the one hand, his views of Rouen, his hometown, and on the other, his seascapes and rural views of Normandy.
He stayed in particular in Mesnil-Val, a picturesque town near the mouth of the Bresle River, which cuts through the great cliffs of the Pays de Caux. There he engraved the cliffs of the coast.
In addition to his work, Nicolle made his mark on art history as the maternal grandfather of the painter, sculptor and author Marcel Duchamp, the Cubist painter and engraver Jacques Villon, the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon and the painter Suzanne Duchamp.