The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene)

The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene)

Paul Cézanne

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Details

Artist
Paul Cézanne
Date
ca. 1875
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
21 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (55.2 x 81.9 cm)
Department
European Paintings
Holding institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
Gift of Heather Daniels and Katharine Whild, and Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, Gift of Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, Wolfe Fund, and Ellen Lichtenstein and Joanne Toor Cummings Bequests, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rodgers, and Wolfe Fund, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 2001

Art Genome Taxonomy

8 tags

Subject Matter

  • The image visibly presents figures in an outdoor landscape beside a body of water, while the catalog lists men, women, and rivers as subjects.

  • Figures in Nature Both · 98%

    Numerous men and women are visibly distributed through the grassy, tree-filled setting; the catalog identifies men and women as subjects.

Visual Qualities

  • Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 88%

    The painting uses saturated greens, blues, violet-blues, ochers, yellows, and white highlights in pronounced contrasts.

Medium and Techniques

  • Painting Metadata · 99%

    The museum classifies the work as a painting.

  • Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

    The catalog specifies the medium as oil on canvas.

  • The foliage, water, clothing, clouds, and ground are built from clearly visible, varied strokes and patches of pigment rather than smoothly blended contours.

Time Periods

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The work is dated circa 1875, within the nineteenth century.

Geographic Regions

  • French Art Metadata · 99%

    The artist is identified in the catalog as French.

Source & rights

Paul Cézanne. The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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