Arques-la-bataille. #3
by John Henry Twachtman
Title
Arques-la-bataille. #3
Artist
John Henry Twachtman
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Arques-la-Bataille. Artist: John Henry Twachtman (American, Cincinnati, Ohio 1853-1902 Gloucester, Massachusetts). Dimensions: 18 1/4 x 25 7/8in. (46.4 x 65.7cm). Date: ca. 1884.
During the summer of 1884 Twachtman--then a student at the Académie Julian in Paris--rented a château with his family at Arques-la-Bataille, Normandy, near the port of Dieppe, and focused on painting unpretentious views of the Arques River valley. In this work, he portrayed the edge of the Béthune, a tributary of the Arques, bordered by a fringe of reeds and meadow flowers. In his Paris studio the following winter, he reconsidered the naturalistic sketch and created his monumental canvas "Arques-la-Bataille" (68.52). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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