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…
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…
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…
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…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio: Un palazzo con cortile sulla laguna (Capriccio: A Palace with a Courtyard by the Lagoon) c.1750–1755 Pen, ink and brush on paper, 26.9 x 42.1 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Privileged young Europeans embarking on the Grand…
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…
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,…
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…
Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Le Bain (The Bath) c.1900 Brush, ink, chalk and gouache, 59.1 x 44 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bracquemond drew extensively and promoted the medium as the source of all artistic practice. This drawing relates to Félix…