The Promenade (Landscape with Cypresses) (1897): Art, History and Details

The Promenade (Landscape with Cypresses) (1897) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910).

The work and its context

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

In 1891, Henri Cross began painting in a pointillist style influenced by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. He also left Paris and moved to the south of France, settling in Saint-Clair, a small village near Saint-Tropez. There, he concentrated on seascapes and scenes of peasants in harmony with nature. The sensuous silhouettes of cypresses and the swaying circle of figures by the water’s edge exemplify Cross’s decorative treatment of landscape, also recalling the Japanese color woodcuts and Art Nouveau designs that inspired other neo-Impressionists at the time.

Object facts

• Title: The Promenade (Landscape with Cypresses)
• Date: 1897
• Creator attribution: Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph on chine collé
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1952.209

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Mrs. Ralph King

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