Cleveland Museum of Art
Interior of a Cathedral
Samuel ProutLinkedCulture matchlcp-d69a876c4f38
- Date
- c. 1820s
- Medium
- gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 119725
Samuel Prout’s watercolors of picturesque views and architectural marvels of Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland attracted a wide audience, helped inspire travel, and shaped the English perception of Continental Europe. The influential critic John Ruskin became a close friend, neighbor, and great supporter of the artist, declaring in the Art Journal in 1849 that no other artist expressed architectural detail in more "splendid accumulation" or "patient love" than Prout. Rather than showing a specific church, this drawing seems to depict an amalgamation of Gothic architecture, capturing a mood and not a particular place.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Provenance
- ?-?: A. D. Halford, Esq. | 1912: (sale, Victor G. Fischer Company Collection, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 19, 1912, no. 648) | ?-1931: James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington, DC, by descent to Alice Maury Parmelee | 1931-1940: Alice Maury Parmelee [1866-1940], Washington, DC, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH through the Estate of James Parmelee | 1940-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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