Banks of the Loing

Banks of the Loing

William Lamb Picknell

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This painting, shown at the Paris Salon of 1897, depicts the river that, channeled into a canal, flows through Moret-sur-Loing, the town near Fontainebleau, France, where Picknell and his wife settled in 1890. Among the artist’s last works, it displays the firm draftsmanship, clear articulation of form, and brilliant color effects that had won him critical recognition. Within a composition based on precise perspective, Picknell applied impressionistic touches of pigment. Canvases such as this one define his stylistic position between the academicians with whom he had studied and the French Impressionists.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.