France, 19th century / 1865
The Seine at Bas-Meudon
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs The Seine at Bas-Meudon as painting (France, 19th century · 1865).
Fellow artist Edouard Manet considered Jongkind the "father of modern landscape painting."
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The museum identifies this painting as oil on fabric and credits Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819–1891).
The museum's collection notes: 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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