Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Appel (The Call) 1902 Oil on fabric, 131.3 x 89.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Although known as one of the founders of modern art, Gauguin found inspiration in ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art. The woman…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te raau rahi (The Large Tree) 1891 Oil on fabric, 74 x 92.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gauguin positions four women in a friezelike sequence seeking shelter under the dark green leaves of a large tree…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) L’été (Summer) 1891 Oil on fabric, 149.6 x 232.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Puvis de Chavannes was considered one of the foremost artists in France in the second half of the 1800, and was…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Cavalerie grecque au repos dans une forêt (Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest) 1858 Oil on fabric, 50.4 x 61.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland A leading figure of the French Romantic movement, Delacroix painted traditional historical…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Avant la course (Before the Race) c.1887–1889 Pastel on paper mounted to cardboard, 57.5 x 65.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland When creating the series to which this pastel belongs, Edgar Degas was inspired by the 19th-century…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Vue panoramique sur les Alpes, Les Dents du Midi (Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi) 1877 Oil on fabric, 151.2 x 210.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This late, unfinished painting reveals some of…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La tour des pigeons à Bellevue (The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue) 1890 Oil on fabric, 95.5 x 113 x 7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Cézanne’s method of compressing space and simplifying forms into flattened, geometric shapes…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Villas à Trouville (Villas at Trouville) 1884 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gustave Caillebotte painted this view of villas at Trouville, a small town on the Normandy coast, using the distinctive…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Rabbit Hunt 1560 Etching, 22.1 x 29 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In this etching considered the artist’s only autograph print, Pieter Bruegel the Elder replicated the graphic vocabulary of dots and dashes of…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le Repos (Rest) 1879 Oil on fabric, 164.5 x 117.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland One of the most celebrated academic painters of his time, Bouguereau underscores the moral virtues of the Italian peasants in this painting…