The Boatyard (c. 1875): Art, History and Details

The Boatyard (c. 1875) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean-Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901).

The work and its context

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

Cazin exhibited this painting at the Paris Salon of 1876, marking the start of his official career. It depicts a boatyard in the artist's native Boulogne, a port city on the English Channel. The young man in the foreground is melting tar at a smoky fire, while men work on a boat just above him. Cazin was associated with the Realist movement during his early years and later with the Impressionists.

Object facts

• Title: The Boatyard
• Date: c. 1875
• Creator attribution: Jean-Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Framed: 105.4 x 149.9 x 15.2 cm (41 1/2 x 59 x 6 in.); Unframed: 77.6 x 122.7 cm (30 9/16 x 48 5/16 in.); Former: 111 x 155.5 x 6.5 cm (43 11/16 x 61 1/4 x 2 9/16 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1977.123

A detail from the museum

This painting was submitted to the Paris Salon in 1876 as Cazin’s first major work.

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Musée des arts décoratifs (France). Cinquante ans de peinture française, 1875-1925, du 28 mai au 12 juillet, 1925. Paris: A. Lévy, 1925.
• Notes on the Ernest May collection, in CMA curatorial file.
• (Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 19, 1933 (no. 56), unsold

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.