Riverbank with birds - Edmond YON

Title : Riverbank with birds

Artist : Edmond YON (Montmartre 1841 – Paris 1897)

Technique : Oil on canvas

Dimensions : 79,5 x 130 cm

Signed lower right, date 1876

Exhibition : 1876, Salon des Artistes Français under number 2079: “Jour d'été”

Edmond Charles Joseph Yon is a French landscape painter, designer and engraver, friend artists most faithful to nature such as Théodore Rousseau, Camille Corot, Jules Dupré as well as Charles-François and Karl Daubigny.

In the same way as these famous painters, he liked to settle in the different landscapes of France to reveal the beauty that appears, every day, with the greatest fidelity. The details of our meticulous work invite contemplation but also a form of stroll within the painting. In the foreground on the left, a gray heron, hidden in the rushes, watches over both its prey and the painter, whose easel must be very close. Above the calm watercourse passes a flock of large birds. Difficult to believe in a migration when observing the vegetation and the title “summer day”…

Works by Edmond Yon are kept at the Carnavalet museum and the Orsay museum, as well as in the collections of the museums of Lille, Brest, Bordeaux and Auxerre.