Cleveland Museum of Art
View of Saint-Cloud, Near the Seine
Alexandre Pau de St. MartinLinkedCulture matchlcp-3b052adc0dd3
- Date
- 1809
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148964
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This painting depicts the park associated with the royal Chateau of Saint-Cloud, famous for its terraced gardens overlooking the River Seine. At the left of the scene, one of the park's gazebos is set among the trees. This view from Saint-Cloud over the river was a traditional and popular one. Very little is known about the life of Pau de Saint-Martin. Most of his surviving works are landscapes, the titles of which indicate he painted in the Forest of Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris, as early as 1795. Perhaps the artist is most important as the teacher of his nephew Theodore Rousseau (1812–1867), who became the founder of the Barbizon school of landscape painting.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
- Provenance
- Clifford Duits, London 1967-68. Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York, 1973. Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Given to the CMA on 20 October 1977.
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