View of Saint-Cloud, Near the Seine (1809): Art, History and Details

View of Saint-Cloud, Near the Seine (1809) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Alexandre Pau de St. Martin (French).

The work and its context

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

This painting depicts the park associated with the royal Chateau of Saint-Cloud, famous for its terraced gardens overlooking the River Seine. At the left of the scene, one of the park's gazebos is set among the trees. This view from Saint-Cloud over the river was a traditional and popular one. Very little is known about the life of Pau de Saint-Martin. Most of his surviving works are landscapes, the titles of which indicate he painted in the Forest of Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris, as early as 1795. Perhaps the artist is most important as the teacher of his nephew Theodore Rousseau (1812–1867), who became the founder of the Barbizon school of landscape painting.

Object facts

• Title: View of Saint-Cloud, Near the Seine
• Date: 1809
• Creator attribution: Alexandre Pau de St. Martin (French)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Unframed: 43.9 x 67.6 cm (17 5/16 x 26 5/8 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1977.121

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Talbot, William S. “Some French Landscapes: 1779-1842.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 3 (March 1978): 75–91.
• Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.

View the collection record

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