The Harbor
''
The Harbor'' (French: ''Le Port'', also known as ''The Port'' or simply ''Marine''), is a painting by the French artist
Jean Metzinger. The work was exhibited in the spring of 1912 at the
Salon des Indépendants in Paris, and at the Salon de La
Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie, October 1912, Paris, (no. 117 of the catalogue, entitled ''Marine'', collection Mme L. Ricou). ''Le Port'' was reproduced a few months later in the first major text on
Cubism entitled ''
Du "Cubisme"'', written in 1912 by Jean Metzinger and
Albert Gleizes, published by Eugène Figuière Editeurs the same year. ''The Harbor'' was subsequently reproduced in ''
The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques)'', written by
Guillaume Apollinaire, published by Figuière in 1913 (collection Mme L. Ricou). At the Salon des Indépendants of 1912, Apollinaire had noticed the classical
Ingresque qualities of Metzinger's ''Le Port'', and suggested that it deserved to be hung in the
Musée du Luxembourg's modern art collection. The dimensions and current whereabouts of ''Le Port'' are unknown.
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