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Portrait of a Woman, Edmond François Aman-Jean , c. 1891, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture Aman-Jean, a French Symbolist painter, was likely more concerned with evoking a wistful, meditative mood in this painting of an...

Portrait of a Woman, Edmond François Aman-Jean , c. 1891, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture


Aman-Jean, a French Symbolist painter, was likely more concerned with evoking a wistful, meditative mood in this painting of an unidentified woman than with defining a specific personality or likeness. The restrained, tonal palette and flat, decorative shapes suggest the influence of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and James McNeill Whistler. The postcard pinned to the wall may represent a work by Sandro Botticelli. Aman-Jean exhibited this painting at the Paris Salon of 1891.
Size: Framed: 113.4 x 117.8 x 8.3 cm (44 5/8 x 46 3/8 x 3 ¼ in.); Unframed: 84.4 x 89.5 cm (33 ¼ x 35 ¼ in.)
Medium: oil on fabric

https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.120

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Alpine Landscape: The Handegg, Switzerland, Jean-Léon Gérôme , 1850s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture This landscape conveys the artist’s almost religious appreciation of nature: the tall, almost-black firs, whose tops...

Alpine Landscape: The Handegg, Switzerland, Jean-Léon Gérôme , 1850s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture


This landscape conveys the artist’s almost religious appreciation of nature: the tall, almost-black firs, whose tops point toward the sky, occupy the foreground like steeples marking a sacred place. In addition, the immense height of the peaks, especially when compared with the trees in the foreground, suggests the artist’s own feeling of awe. Although this work was painted in France, it depicts the Handegg, a peak in the Swiss Alps just south of Lucerne. The painting describes the experience of the many artists and travelers who journeyed from Northern Europe to Italy during the 19th century. A visit to, or through, the Alps was an essential part of the “Grand Tour,” an extended trip to the famous sites and cultural centers of Europe.
Size: Framed: 36 x 47 x 5.5 cm (14 3/16 x 18 ½ x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 26.8 x 37 cm (10 9/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Medium: oil on fabric

https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.262

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Summer, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , 1891, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture This painting is a smaller version of a mural on the same subject painted for the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, which has a companion mural titled...

Summer, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , 1891, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture


This painting is a smaller version of a mural on the same subject painted for the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, which has a companion mural titled Winter. A writer at the time described Summer as “filled with joy, happiness, rest, and the apotheosis of life.” Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso were among the many modernists influenced by Puvis de Chavannes’s dreamlike themes and anti-naturalistic style of simplified, flattened forms.
Size: Framed: 189.5 x 270.5 x 14.6 cm (74 5/8 x 106 ½ x 5 ¾ in.); Unframed: 149.6 x 232.4 cm (58 7/8 x 91 ½ in.)
Medium: oil on fabric

https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1056

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