id: 104168 accession number: 1922.328 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.328 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:49.344000 The Rainbow, Achères la Forêt, 1883. Jean-Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901). Oil on fabric; framed: 122 x 141.5 x 17 cm (48 1/16 x 55 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.); unframed: 82 x 100.5 cm (32 5/16 x 39 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Cowles Chisholm 1922.328 title: The Rainbow, Achères la Forêt title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1883 creation date earliest: 1883 creation date latest: 1883 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mary Cowles Chisholm copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean-Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901) - artist Jean Charles Cazin was educated in Boulogne-sur-Mer and England before completing his high-school degree in Lille. He had always shown artistic promise and by 1863 was living in Paris and submitting a landscape painting to the Salon des Refusés. He enrolled at the École Gratuite de Dessin, where he studied drawing under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1802-1897), an innovative and unorthodox instructor who had developed his own teaching method based on drawing from memory. Many other young artists were attracted to his teaching style, including Fantin-Latour (q.v.), Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), and Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Cazin's friendship with his mentor led to a teaching position at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, and he later became the director of the École de Dessin and curator of the museum in Tours. In 1871, after the devastation caused by the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), Cazin and his wife, Marie Guillet, an artist who had studied under Bonheur (q.v.), left for England. During this period he turned to the decorative arts and created ceramics influenced by Japonism. Cazin's pottery served to support his family during this time of postwar economic depression; he would eventually hire his own staff to produce the ceramics that he would then decorate. After the traditional tour of Italy and a short stay in Antwerp, he returned to France in 1875 and settled near Boulogne-sur-Mer. There he painted landscapes and the beaches of this coastal town. Cazin received the Légion d'Honneur in 1882, a gold medal at the Universal Exposition of 1889, and a Grand Prix in 1900. --- measurements: Framed: 122 x 141.5 x 17 cm (48 1/16 x 55 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.); Unframed: 82 x 100.5 cm (32 5/16 x 39 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right in brown paint: J. C. Cazin .83 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Cleveland, Hickcox Building. Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition (1894), no. 60, Country Scene in France, lent by William Chisholm Sr.', 'opening_date': None} --- PROVENANCE William Chisholm Sr., Cleveland. Mary Cowles Chisholm, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1922. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 115-116, Vol. I, no. 43 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.328/1922.328_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.328/1922.328_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.328/1922.328_full.tif