The Seine at Bas-Meudon
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
unframed: 34.1 × 48.1 cm · framed: 55.6 × 69.5 × 11.1 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the family of Constance Mather Bishop
Accession Number
1993.236
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About this artwork
Although born and trained in Holland, Jongkind spent much of his life painting outdoors in France. In this depiction of Bas-Meudon near Paris, the artist applied paint in small patches of bright color to suggest the intensity of outdoor light. Although typcially finished in the studio from open-air sketches, Jongkind's oil paintings achieve a convincing immediacy that greatly impressed the young Claude Monet. The two met in the early 1860s and spent part of a summer painting together along the c...