# The Pink Cloud

- By: Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910)
- Date: c. 1896
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 54.6 x 61 cm (21 1/2 x 24 in.); Framed: 78.9 x 86 x 8.9 cm (31 1/16 x 33 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.106)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2020.106/2020.106_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Due to his diagnosis of persistent rheumatism, Henri-Edmond Cross left Paris in 1891 and settled in the seaside village of Saint-Clair on the Mediterranean coast where the climate was more temperate. He expressed his enthusiasm for the French Riveria to his mother, “In the distance, the blue silhouette of the Maures and the Estérel—I have enough here to keep me busy all of life—I have just discovered happiness.” Once he had settled in the south, Cross adopted the Neo-Impressionist technique of Pointillism—applying paint in small dots or dashes of complementary colors that mix in the beholder’s eye to create an intense sensation of color and light. Here, a spectacular cloud is illuminated by the sunset. A pair of cypress trees link the garden landscape below to the vivid sky above.