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Banks of the Oise at Dawn
Louis Hayet (French, 1864–1940)
1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 51 x 71 cm (20 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this 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.
