The Banks of the Marne at Charenton

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Artist: Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841–1927)
Date: c. 1895
Medium: oil on fabric
Dimensions: unframed: height 0.323 m, width 0.401 m
Origin: France, 19th century
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Holding institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Palette: Raw Walnut · Brown family · #6C482A · 35%

Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #4D6E66 · 18%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #A59675 · 13%

Moss Fresco · Green family · #636F4D · 12%

Marine Tempera · Blue family · #426275 · 7%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #937147 · 7%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #422713 · 3%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #6A5C33 · 2%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #D3B58B · 1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #A3582E · 1%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #1E1A05 · <1%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #5B534C · <1%

Archive Wax Red · Red family · #64494C · <1%

Midnight Indigo · Black family · #101C26 · <1%

Vermilion Standard · Red family · #C04F37 · <1%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #99AFBE · <1%

Egyptian Blue Tile · Blue family · #1475B7 · <1%

Pine Needle · Green family · #13723C · <1%

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Image provider: cleveland-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams from The Blair Trust

10 tags

Landscapes Visual · 100%

The image depicts a broad natural setting with a river, tree-covered banks, distant landforms, and sky.
Waterscapes Visual · 99%

A winding body of water occupies the central and lower-right portions of the composition and recedes into the distance.
Flora Visual · 99%

Trees, grasses, shrubs, and flowering or leafy plants dominate both banks and the foreground.
Human Figure Both · 84%

A small, indistinct human figure is visible near the left-center bank; the museum metadata also lists “male” among the subjects, although the figure’s gender is not securely legible in the image.

Impressionism Interpretive · 78%

The broken brushwork, luminous color relationships, and attention to atmospheric effects support a cautious visual association with Impressionism, although the supplied museum metadata does not specify a style.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 96%

The landscape uses saturated blue, green, pink, orange, and ocher passages across the vegetation, sky, and water.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The Cleveland Museum of Art classifies the work as a painting in oil on fabric.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 96%

Short, directional, visibly articulated strokes construct foliage, grasses, clouds, and reflections across the surface.

19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The work is dated circa 1895, placing it within nineteenth-century art.

French Art Metadata · 100%

The artist is identified as French and the place of origin is given as France, nineteenth century.

Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841–1927). The Banks of the Marne at Charenton. Cleveland Museum of Art.