La tombée du soir sur l’Oise (1888)
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Alphonse Osbert painted La tombée du soir sur l'Oise in 1888, relatively early in his career — before he became closely associated with the Symbolist movement and the circle around Puvis de Chavannes and Sérusier. This is still a straightforward landscape, painted from observation. Trees line the bank of the Oise river in deep blues and blue-grays, their reflections stretching across still water, with a pale sky fading behind. The whole painting is nearly monochromatic — almost everything is blue, with just a few warm notes at the edges. Osbert signed and dated it in the lower left corner, 1888.