View of Beirut
Artist: Jules Coignet (French, 1798–1860)
Original Dimensions: 13 1/8" x 20 3/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1844) "Coignet’s visit to the Middle East in 1844–46 provided him with subject matter for paintings he later exhibited at the annual Paris Salons. This picturesque view is founded on formal conventions of Neoclassical landscape composition, but the spirited brushwork used to convey the shimmering Mediterranean light is characteristic of an informal sketch. As if to emphasize the speed with which it was completed, Coignet inscribed the location and date in the still-wet paint with the wood end of his brush." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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