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The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Charles W. Harkness Gift
Museum
Midnight
1891
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Provenance
PublicProvenance event
Shipped with two other works by Cazin from Knoedler Paris to the branch in New York, 16 May 1891 (st...
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Sold 12 November 1891 to R. K. McNeely, Philadelphia, as "Night," (Cazin's Studio). (Sales book no....
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Charles T. Yerkes, Philadelphia and Chicago, by 1893.
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New York sale, Estate of Mary Adelaide Yerkes, American Art Association, 19-20 February 1912 (lot 14...
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Edward S. Harkness, Cleveland, OH.
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Donated to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1923.
Source provenance text
Shipped with two other works by Cazin from Knoedler Paris to the branch in New York, 16 May 1891 (stock number 6834), as "Night with Stars." Sold 12 November 1891 to R. K. McNeely, Philadelphia, as "Night," (Cazin's Studio). (Sales book no. 6, p. 314). Charles T. Yerkes, Philadelphia and Chicago, by 1893. New York sale, Estate of Mary Adelaide Yerkes, American Art Association, 19-20 February 1912 (lot 142, repr.), as "Moonlight at Midnight." Edward S. Harkness, Cleveland, OH. Donated to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1923.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Paris, Champ de Mars. Salon (1891), no. 181, Minuit (repr.). Chicago. World's Columbian Exposition (1893), rev. cat., no. 3034, Midnight Moonlight, Abbeville, France, lent by Charles T. Yerkes, Chicago.
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Sourced Overview Evidence
This painting depicts Abbeville, a city in northern France famous for its canals and architecture. It lies near the seaport of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Cazin's hometown and where he spent the last decades of his life painting the countryside, beaches, and nearby towns. Cazin specialized in landscapes, often influenced by his knowledge of English and Dutch painters. The title, <em>Midnight</em>, and the image itself suggest silence and stillness—Cazin's hallmarks—but only rarely did he attain this almost surrealistic atmosphere. Cazin was educated in Paris at the famous Ecole Gratuite de Dessins (Free School of Drawing), an innovative and unorthodox institution teaching drawing from memory. He studied there with fellow artists Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), and Alphonse Legros (1837–1911). They all shared an interest in Symbolism—the movement that sees symbols in reality and perceives reality through symbols.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
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