Cleveland Museum of Art

Châteauvieux-sur-Suran

Antoine-Claude Ponthus-CinierLinkedCulture matchlcp-5fe1048c2917

Date: 1848
Medium: oil on paper mounted on fabric
Culture: France, 19th century
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 150038

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This view of a ruined building on a rocky cliff in Châteauvieux above the Suran river in the French Alps is constructed in the manner of a classical or ideal landscape. Forms recede at a measured pace along a sinuous, curving path that passes through carefully defined planes of fore, middle, and background. The warm, glowing light and imaginary figures pursuing their daily tasks contribute to the mood of timeless, pastoral bliss. The son of a merchant, Ponthus-Cinier was one of the principle artists of the School of Lyon and painted neoclassical views of the countryside around Lyon and the Alpine region near the Swiss border.

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Credit line: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
Provenance: -1977: London sale, Sotheby's, 20 July 1977 (lot 142, repr.), as Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny, An Italian Landscape. | 1977: (Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Noah L. Butkin) | 1977-1980: Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980], Shaker Heights, OH by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1980-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH