The Seine at Bas-Meudon (Q60477008)

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artist: Johan Jongkind (Q704585)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location of final assembly: France (Q142)
depicts: boat (Q35872) house (Q3947) Seine (Q1471) Meudon (Q234735) tree (Q10884)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.236

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: 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 coast of Normandy. "From that time he was my real master," Monet later acknowledged, "it was to him that I owe the final education of my eye."

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