# Banks of the Seine

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LOISEAU, Gustave](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/loiseau-gustave-r3366f6776196a9>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 65 x 82 cm

## Commentary

Loiseau was a self-taught painter who experimented with pointillism around 1884. He sojourned in Pont-Aven, and then, on his many travels, painted landscapes, mainly featuring rivers and the coast. He was dubbed &#34;the historian of the Seine&#34; because he was adept at what Impressionism was best suited to: recording and celebrating shifting conditions of light and the changes made in the landscape by human hand.

## Related artworks

- [Cape Fréhel and &#34;La Teignouse&#34; Cliffs](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/loiseau-gustave-r3366f6776196a9/cape-frhel-and-la-teignouse-cliffs-r9bd40b2c893b62>)
- [Orchard in Spring](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/loiseau-gustave-r3366f6776196a9/orchard-in-spring-rc025676c94d402>)
- [The Hamlet of Chaponval](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/loiseau-gustave-r3366f6776196a9/the-hamlet-of-chaponval-r193f32aed26f89>)
- [Tournedos-sur-Seine, Snow, Frost, Sun](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/loiseau-gustave-r3366f6776196a9/tournedos-sur-seine-snow-frost-sun-ra1e2bab875f510>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)