Cleveland Museum of Art

The Seine at Bas-Meudon

Johan Barthold JongkindLinkedCulture matchlcp-008b076d514a

Date: 1865
Medium: oil on fabric
Culture: France, 19th century
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 157104

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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." Fellow artist Edouard Manet considered Jongkind the "father of modern landscape painting."

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Credit line: Gift of the family of Constance Mather Bishop
Provenance: 1883: (Possibly Hotel Drouot, Paris, France, April 12-14, 1883, lot 84, sale Bascle Collection, sold to Paul Dutrimont) | 1906: (Galerie George Petit, Paris, France, December 3-4, 1906, sale, Alexandre Blanc Collection, sold to Paul Detrimont, according to annotated catalogue in Frick library) | Samuel Mather [1851-1931], Cleveland, OH, by descent to his daughter, Constance Mather Bishop | Mrs. Robert H. Bishop, Jr., (Constance Mather Bishop) [1889-1969], Novelty, OH, by descent to her son, Dr. Johnathan S. Bishop | -1993: Dr. Johathan S. Bishop, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1993-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH