Camaret, Moonlight and Fishing Boats
- Artist
- Maximilien Luce, French, 1858–1941
- Date
- 1894
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- Depicts
- Brittany, France, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 218
- Dimensions
- 28 1/2 x 36 1/4 in. (72.4 x 92.1 cm)
framed: 37 x 44 3/4 x 3 in. (94 x 113.7 x 7.6 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Purchase, Museum Shop Fund, and funds given by Gary Wolff, the Stephen F. Brauer and Camilla T. Brauer Charitable Trust, the Pershing Charitable Trust, the Kate Stamper Wilhite Charitable Foundation, the William Schmidt Charitable Foundation, the John R. Goodall Charitable Trust, Nooter Corporation, Eleanor C. Johnson, Mrs. Winifred Garber, Hunter Engineering, the Joseph H. & Elizabeth E. Bascom Charitable Foundation, the Stephen M. Boyd Fund, Robert Brookings Smith, Irma Haeseler Bequest, BSI Constructors Inc., Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Latzer, Samuel C. Davis Jr., Dr. and Mrs. William H. Danforth, Mr. and Mrs. George Conant, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cramer, Dr. and Mrs. David M. Kipnis, Mr. and Mrs. John O'Connell, Edith B. Schiele, and donors to the Art Enrichment Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 29:1998
NOTES
In this atmospheric nocturnal scene, Maximilien Luce painted the fishing port of Camaret in Brittany in the far west of France. The artist emphasizes a sense of geometric structure by repeating the diagonal lines of the boats while using a palette of blues and violets to offset the intense yellow of the moon. Luce turned to Pointillism as a technique in 1887 and became a prominent figure in this group of neo-Impressionists who meticulously built up their canvases with thousands of dots and flecks of paint.