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Portrait of a Lady, Johann Heinrich Neumann , 1874, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Framed: 73.7 x 59.8 cm (29 x 23 9/16 in.) Medium: oil on canvas

https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.256

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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 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 1/4 in.); Unframed: 84.4 x 89.5 cm (33 1/4 x 35 1/4 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 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 1/2 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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DRAWING RESTRAINT 7, Matthew Barney, 1993, MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

Gift of the Dannheisser Foundation Size: Dimensions variable Medium: Three-channel video (color, no sound), video monitors, steel, and internally lubricated plastic, and fluorescent light fixtures

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81055

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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 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 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.); Unframed: 149.6 x 232.4 cm (58 7/8 x 91 1/2 in.) Medium: oil on fabric

https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1056

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Expulsion of Adam and Eve, John Faed , 1880s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Unframed: 91.3 x 70.7 cm (35 15/16 x 27 13/16 in.) Medium: oil on fabric

https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.258

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Around the Void II (Alrededor del vacio II), Eduardo Chillida, 1965, Art Institute of Chicago: Contemporary Art

Mary and Leigh Block Fund for Acquisitions Size: 41.9 x 52.1 x 35.6 cm (16 ½ x 20 ½ x 14 in.) Medium: Forged steel

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93444/

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The Hillsides of Méry-sur-Oise, Opposite Auvers, Charles François Daubigny , 1873, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Framed: 64 x 86 x 12.5 cm (25 3/16 x 33 7/8 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 34.5 x 57.1 cm (13 9/16 x 22 1/2 in.) Medium: oil on wood panel

https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1048

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Portrait of a Woman, c. 1805, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Diameter: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.); Diameter of frame: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.) Medium: watercolor on ivory in a gilt metal frame

https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.233

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In the Housatonic Valley, Homer Dodge Martin , late 1850s, Cleveland Museum of Art: American Painting and Sculpture

Size: Unframed: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) Medium: oil on canvas

https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.392

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The River, Maxime Maufra , 1902, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Unframed: 54.5 x 65.7 cm (21 7/16 x 25 7/8 in.) Medium: oil on fabric

https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.64

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Exquisite Corpse, Jake Chapman, 2000, Tate

Purchased 2000 Size: image: 228 x 78 mm Medium: Etching on paper

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/chapman-exquisite-corpse-p78463

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Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: The Last Supper, French School, 1475, Art Institute of Chicago: European Painting and Sculpture

This panel was once part of the altarpiece decorating the high altar of the Carthusian monastery at Thuison, outside of Abbeville in northern France. Four saints standing in niches were painted on the exterior of the altarpiece’s wings. When the wings were open, the interior of the altarpiece told the story of Christ’s Passion and Resurrection through painted narratives on the inside of the wings and painted and gilded carvings in the central shrine whose central subject was undoubtedly the Crucifixion. The carvings have not survived. The fronts and backs of the wings were sawn apart in the mid 19th century; all the wing panels except one narrative (The Entry into Jerusalem, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg) are in the Art Institute. A rich border region north of Paris, Picardy was a possession of the Burgundian Netherlands in the mid-15th century, becoming part of France in 1477. Its painters were strongly influenced by artists from the neighboring provinces of the Low Countries, among them Rogier van der Weyden and Simon Marmion. The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection Size: Panel: 117.2 × 50.9 cm (46 1/8 × 20 in.); Painted Surface: 115.6 × 49.7 cm (45 ½ × 19 9/16 in.) Medium: Oil on panel

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16312/

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The Rainbow, Achères la Forêt, Jean-Charles Cazin , 1883, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Framed: 122 x 141.5 x 17 cm (48 1/16 x 55 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.); Unframed: 82 x 100.5 cm (32 5/16 x 39 9/16 in.) Medium: oil on fabric

https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.328

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René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy, Hippolyte Jean Flandrin , 1850, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

This double portrait depicts two brothers dressed in the height of fashion for the 1850s, clearly asserting their social status. Jean-Baptiste (left, age 23) carries gloves and a walking stick. René-Charles (right, age 25) wears an embroidered black velvet suit in the exotic à la Grec mode inspired by the Greek war of independence (1821-32). Flandrin represents the figures in an academic style emphasizing line over color, reflecting his training as a pupil of J. A. D. Ingres. Size: Framed: 173.5 x 134 x 14 cm (68 5/16 x 52 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 133.4 x 92.7 cm (52 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.) Medium: oil on canvas, original frame

https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.17

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Crémieu, Seen from Chaillonnette, François-Auguste Ravier , c. 1867-1872, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Unframed: 27 x 34.8 cm (10 5/8 x 13 11/16 in.) Medium: oil on wood panel

https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.724

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Frieze of Dancers, Edgar Degas , c. 1895, Cleveland Museum of Art: Modern European Painting and Sculpture

This painting may depict a single dancer seen from four different viewpoints. The young woman is placed in an undefined setting, surrounded by mere wisps of color, applied so spontaneously that the paint ran and dripped. Degas even added the circles in the foreground with his thumb. Such audacity, while acceptable in a small sketch, must have shocked the artist's contemporaries when presented on a six-foot canvas. Equally radical is the idea of combining multiple views of a single figure. Degas's unusual presentation may have been inspired by the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) Size: Framed: 103 x 233.5 x 7 cm (40 9/16 x 91 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 70 x 200.5 cm (27 9/16 x 78 15/16 in.) Medium: oil on fabric

https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.83