Midnight
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
unframed: 88 × 89 cm · framed: 113 × 112.4 × 11.4 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Charles W. Harkness Gift
Accession Number
1923.602
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
This painting depicts Abbeville, a city in northern France famous for its canals and architecture. It lies near the seaport of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Cazin's hometown and where he spent the last decades of his life painting the countryside, beaches, and nearby towns. Cazin specialized in landscapes, often influenced by his knowledge of English and Dutch painters. The title, Midnight, and the image itself suggest silence and stillness—Cazin's hallmarks—but only rarely did he attain this almost surreal...