Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)

1887

This painting is set on the river Seine at the Clichy Bridge near Asnières, a suburb north of Paris where Van Gogh painted on several occasions with his friend and fellow artist Paul Signac. Van Gogh was inspired by a technique Signac innovated called divisionism, in which, using science-based color theory, he painted distinct strokes of different colors of paint next to each other to make each color more luminous.

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Artist

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)

Date

1887

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

50.5 × 60 cm (19 7/8 × 23 5/8 in.); Framed: 71.2 × 78.5 × 4.8 cm (28 × 30 7/8 × 1 7/8 in.)

Origin

Netherlands

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and Roger McCormick