# The River Sambre in Charleroi

By [Maximilien Luce](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/maximilien-luce.md>), 1896.

Bridge, river, and smoke dissolve into prismatic night color.

## Details

- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 54.6 × 64.8 cm
- Collection: [Yale University Art Gallery](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-116ce327597310c6.md>)

[View collection record](<https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/10086>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Post-Impressionism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/post-impressionism.md>), [Pointillism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/pointillism.md>)

## Image

![A bridge and smoking industrial buildings loom above the River Sambre in a dark field of colored lights.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-b0969196aa167503-96ee901b6d0a5039/full.jpg?v=03aabded5de54ffa92987ba1d79d6c146f078438ece3acc93afea0cfdfdaa6a4>)

## Sources & credits

- Yale University Art Gallery via Wikimedia Commons; public domain.
- Gift of Arthur G. Altschul, B.A. 1943; Yale University Art Gallery
- [Image source](<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maximilien_Luce_-_The_River_Sambre_in_Charleroi_-_1972.120.2_-_Yale_University_Art_Gallery.jpg>)
- Artwork metadata and open images supplied by Yale University Art Gallery.

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