↗France, late 19th century-early 20th century · c. 1915–26
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet
Colour palette
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Approximate colour proportions
Estimated from six colour groups in the museum image, including visible paper or borders. Reproduction and lighting affect the result; these are image-area proportions, not pigment measurements.
Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image licence: CC0 · Museum record & image source ↗
France, late 19th-early 20th century · c. 1900
On the River
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 100.3 x 100.9 cm (39 1/2 x 39 3/4 in.); Unframed: 80.5 x 77 cm (31 11/16 x 30 5/16 in.)
- Country / context
- France
- Movement / tradition
- European and American art
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Attribution / role
- attributed to
- Pathway
- European and American art ↗
ABOUT THIS WORK
On the River is a representative work in our Henri-Edmond Cross guide. The catalogue records oil on canvas. attributed to. The linked artist guide places it alongside other works from the artist’s career.
Original educational overview · based on the linked museum recordPlace in the artist’s career
Compare the mid-1890s cloud, the 1897 colour lithograph and the oil river scene around 1900. Printed colour and painted colour build light through different processes. Look at the size and spacing of marks and the relation between tree silhouettes, water and sky; the examples represent mature experiments rather than his earliest training.
The artist’s practice
Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.
Media and surface
Colour lithographs and oils use different processes to organise divided or separated marks.
Marks and structure
Mosaic-like touches and broadening marks turn landscape into rhythmic surfaces.
Palette and light
Contrasting colour units generate luminosity, often emphasising harmony over naturalistic local colour.
A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
