1897
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Promenade (Landscape with Cypresses) is a 1897 by Henri Edmond Cross, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows four women strolling under a bright blue sky. Their dresses are loose and colorful. A tall dark cypress tree leans into the scene. Cross painted this in 1897 near Saint-Tropez. He used tiny dots of color side by side. That technique, called pointillism, makes the colors mix in your eyes. Look up Paul Signac to see more of this style.
In 1891, Henri Cross began painting in a pointillist style influenced by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. He also left Paris and moved to the south of France, settling in Saint-Clair, a small village near Saint-Tropez. There, he concentrated on seascapes and scenes of peasants in harmony with nature. The sensuous silhouettes of cypresses and the swaying circle of figures by the water’s edge exemplify Cross’s decorative treatment of landscape, also recalling the Japanese color woodcuts and Art Nouveau designs that inspired other neo-Impressionists at the time.
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Henri-Edmond Cross (French: ; 20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910), born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix (), was a French painter and printmaker.
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