Eugène Lepoittevin, also known as Poidevin, Poitevin, and Le Poittevin, was a French artist who achieved an early and lifelong success as a landscape and maritime painter. His work ranged from erotic caricatures to massive battle scenes. His works are in the collections of many museums throughout France. He made many paintings set in and around the fishing village of Étretat, and in 2020 he was the subject of an exhibition and book, L'invention d'Étretat: Eugène Le Poittevin, un peintre et ses amis à l'aube de l'impressionnisme.
Portrait by Charles Baugniet, 1838
Image: Eugène Lepoittevin signature from Les Bains de Mer, Plage d’Etretat, 1864 and mark from a lithograph
Auguste Xavier Leprince and Eugène Lepoittevin, The Artist's Studio, 1827, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison.
Eugène Lepoittevin, possible self-portrait from Les Diables de Lithographies, 1832.
Étretat is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of Northwestern France. It is a tourist and farming town situated about 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D 940, D 11 and D 139 roads. It is located on the coast of the Pays de Caux area.
View of Étretat
One of the chalk cliffs in Étretat
Panorama of the cliffs
The old Covered Market in Étretat