Classical Landscape
1779
- Medium
- black gouache and brush and gray wash, over black chalk and graphite, heightened with white gouache
- Dimensions
- 41.3 × 48.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-193449
The leading landscape painter of the late 18th century, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes was also an important theoretician whose book Elements of Practical Perspective influenced generations of French artists who followed. In the book, the artist described two ways of envisioning nature: "seeing it as it is," and "seeing it as it could be." He preferred the latter, believing that it demanded more of the imagination than merely copying the natural world. The perfection of the setting in this drawing reflects the noble, classical subject: three maidens cutting their hair and offering it on an alta…
Provenance
Wade Fund, 1980.91
Registry history
- 1779 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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