“Printemps – Grez-sur-Loing”

Medium	Oil on canvas
Size	24.00" × 30.00" (61.0cm × 76.2cm)
Framed Size	26.00" × 32.00" (66.0cm × 81.3cm)
Dated	c. 1890
Condition	Very good condition
Provenance	The collection of the artist's family - Grez-sur-Loing, France By descent from Bessie Potter Vonnoh

Summary

Printemps, Grez-sur-Loing — Spring at Grez-sur-Loing — is Robert William Vonnoh at the heart of his subject. The village of Grez, on the river Loing south of Paris at the edge of the Fontainebleau forest, was where Vonnoh came into his own as a painter. He first arrived in 1886 on his honeymoon, returned the following year with real intent, and kept returning for the rest of his working life. It was here that the academic portrait painter became an Impressionist. Spring was the season that drew painters to Grez most powerfully. The light along the Loing in April and May — pale, clear, with a particular quality that the forest and the river conspired to create — offered something different from the harder brightness of summer. Vonnoh responded to it with the full range of the Impressionist technique he had mastered: broken brushwork, colour applied unmixed and direct, form dissolved into atmosphere and season. Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1858 and trained first in Boston and then at the Académie Julian in Paris, Vonnoh was among the earliest American painters to bring European Impressionism home. His students at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts included Robert Henri, William Glackens and Maxfield Parrish — three of the most significant American painters of the following generation. His influence on American art was considerable and lasting. His work is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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