Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape with Rider on White Horse
Jean Achille BenouvilleLinkedCulture matchlcp-e2a909aadf31
- Date
- 1846
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 168366
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The darkly shaded trees and turbulent sky introduce a romantic sentiment into this classical or ideal landscape in which a lone rider on horseback gallops through a deep space. The composition is organized into three clearly defined zones that recede from the path in the foreground, to the lake or river in the middle ground, to the distant rocky mountain and sea. In 1863, Benouville was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- -2010: Muriel Butkin [1915-2008] Shaker Heights, OH bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2010-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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