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Le Troubadour (1868-1873)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Troubadour (The Troubadour) 1868–1873 Oil on fabric, 83.6 x 56.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Daumier was called the “Michelangelo of caricature” and especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.…

Le chêne et le roseau (c.1873)

Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Le chêne et le roseau (The Oak Tree and the Reed) c.1873 Wash and graphite on paper, 29.3 x 23 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Oak Tree and the Reed illustrates the fable of the same…

Le rêve (1931)

Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Le rêve (The Dream) 1931 Oil on canvas, 96 x 96 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Dalí and other Surrealist artists created images depicting strange juxtapositions that are sometimes referred to as “dreamscapes.” The Dream gives visual…

Étang à Ville-d’Avray (late 1860s)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Étang à Ville-d’Avray (Pond at Ville-d’Avray) late 1860s Oil on fabric, 58.1 x 99.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The dreamlike quality of the painting reflects Corot’s desire to reproduce the “first Impression” of the landscape. Corot…

Vue panoramique sur les Alpes (1877)

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…

La tour des pigeons à Bellevue (1890)

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…

Villas à Trouville (1884)

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…

Landscape with Travelers (1605)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Landscape with Travelers 1605 Etching, 22.1 x 29 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland A son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan traveled in Italy in the 1590s and later enjoyed a successful career in Antwerp,…

The Rabbit Hunt (1560)

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…