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Look through the opening beneath the pine canopy, then compare the strokes in the shaded ground with those in the pale strip of sea.
Cross painted the Mediterranean coast in 1896 through a screen of pines. Separate strokes connect shaded earth, tree trunks, and the distant water without making their surfaces identical. A band of pale sea and sky opens between the dark canopy and colorful ground, giving the dense foreground room to breathe.
Oil on canvas · 21 3/8 × 25 3/4 × 1 1/8 in. (54.3 × 65.4 × 2.8 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Neo-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Pines Along the Shore
- Artist
- Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix) (French, Douai 1856–1910 Saint-Clair)
- Date
- 1896
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 21 3/8 × 25 3/4 × 1 1/8 in. (54.3 × 65.4 × 2.8 cm) Framed: 30 1/4 × 34 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (76.8 × 87.6 × 10.8 cm)
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.