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Poulets, gibier à plumes et lièvres (c.1882)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Poulets, gibier à plumes et lièvres (Chickens, Game Birds, and Hares) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 76 x 105 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Caillebotte balanced the notion of the wild with the orderly in this painting, as…

Portrait d’homme (1880)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) 1880 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Among Gustave Caillebotte’s most celebrated works are his views of modern Paris seen from balconies and terraces, a theme…

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…

Ritratto di donna (c.1550)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) c.1550 Oil on wood, 60 x 48.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo I de’Medici, the Duke of Florence. Though the woman cannot be definitively identified,…

Le Bain (c.1900)

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…

Le Repos (1879)

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…

Bacchante sur une panthère (1855)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Bacchante sur une panthère (Bacchante on a Panther) 1855 Oil on fabric, 71.3 x 111.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair). These paintings are from a series…

Arion sur un hippocampe (1855)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Arion sur un hippocampe (Arion on a Sea Horse) 1855 Oil on fabric, 71.3 x 111.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair). These paintings are from a…