Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009942Bridge at Poissy (Pêcheurs à ligne)
About the Artwork
This surprising, naturalist painting by the renowned French academic-realist Ernst Meissonier depicts a man and a woman in small boat on the river Seine at Poissy, a small town about 15 miles northeast of Paris. The fashionably dressed figures, presumably members of the new urban class at leisure, are fishing in the shade of several trees on the bank. The man wears straw hat, his shirt sleeves casually rolled up, while the woman stands in the boat extending her pole over the water.
Provenance
Estate of Muriel Butkin
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891)
- Date
- 1881
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 33.7 x 56.3 cm (13 1/4 x 22 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2022.432
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