Banks of the Oise at Dawn (1888): Art, History and Details

Banks of the Oise at Dawn (1888) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Louis Hayet (French, 1864–1940).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Louis Hayet was an important, early practitioner of Neo-Impressionism, or Pointillism, the practice of applying small strokes or dots of paint so that from a distance the hues visually blend together and create an intense sensation of color and light. Notice the way in which Hayet painted the pale dawn sky—and its reflection in the River Oise—with strokes of pink, orange, blue, yellow, and green paint. When seen at a distance, the effect is of early morning, before the sun has fully risen.

Object facts

• Title: Banks of the Oise at Dawn
• Date: 1888
• Creator attribution: Louis Hayet (French, 1864–1940)
• Culture: France
• Type: Painting
• Technique: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 51 x 71 cm (20 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 2019.18

A detail from the museum

Hayet received considerable critical praise for his original idea of developing a Neo-Impressionist color chart that incorporates gray tones.

Collection credit

Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• House, John, and Mary Anne Stevens. Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1979. Published as: "River Landscape"
• Dulon, Guy, Louis Hayet, and Christophe Duvivier. Louis Hayet: 1864-1940 : peintre et théoricien du néo-impressionnisme. Pontoise: Musée de Pontoise, 1991.
• Bocquillon-Ferretti, Marina. Georges Seurat, Paul Signac e i neoimpressionisti. Milan: Skira, 2008.

View the collection record

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