1885, John H. Twachtman, Arques-la-Bataille -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Celebrated today as one of the most progressive and poetic landscape painters of his day, this work is one of several large canvases Twachtman produced during his two years of study in France. Developed from a plein-air (outdoors) oil sketch, which hangs nearby, it depicts a scene at Arques-la-Bataille, a town four miles southeast of Dieppe, in Normandy, where the Béthune and two other streams flow together to form the Arques River. Its formal design, tonalist palette, and overall aesthetic mood recall Japanese woodblock prints as well as the evocative paintings of James McNeill Whistler—both formative influences on Twachtman.
1885, John H. Twachtman, Arques-la-Bataille -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Celebrated today as one of the most progressive and poetic landscape painters of his day, this work is one of several large canvases Twachtman produced during his two years of study in France. Developed from a plein-air (outdoors) oil sketch, which hangs nearby, it depicts a scene at Arques-la-Bataille, a town four miles southeast of Dieppe, in Normandy, where the Béthune and two other streams flow together to form the Arques River. Its formal design, tonalist palette, and overall aesthetic mood recall Japanese woodblock prints as well as the evocative paintings of James McNeill Whistler—both formative influences on Twachtman.