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Follow the blue-green leaves at the bottom toward the twisting tree in the middle distance. How do the shape and direction of the marks change?
Cross made this watercolor of his garden at Saint-Clair in 1904–05. Curved strokes and short blocks of color describe foliage while leaving the paper visible. The garden’s depth emerges through overlapping marks rather than tightly drawn contours, so the plants also read as rhythms across the sheet.
Watercolor · Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (26.6 x 35.8cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Neo-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- The Artist's Garden at Saint-Clair
- Artist
- Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix) (French, Douai 1856–1910 Saint-Clair)
- Date
- 1904–5
- Medium
- Watercolor
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (26.6 x 35.8cm)
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948
- 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.