The River Sambre in Charleroi (1896)
Maximilien Luce1896 · Landscape · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1941)
Specifications
- Year
- 1896
- Nationality / school
- French
- Lifespan
- 1858–1941
About the artwork
"The River Sambre in Charleroi" (1896) is a work by Maximilien Luce. Context for 1896: Japanese prints reached Europe in large numbers and influenced many artists, while photography changed what painting needed to do. The later nineteenth century is the era of Impressionism, whose first group exhibition was held in Paris in 1874, followed by Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and the Arts and Crafts movement. It is listed in the Landscape collection. The image is in landscape orientation. Background on Landscape: Landscape became an independent genre in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, while in East Asia it had long been central to ink painting. Painters have used landscape to study light, weather, season, and the relation between people and place.
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About the artist
French, 1858–1941
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