Cleveland Museum of Art
The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows)
Frederic Edwin Church
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Although the location that inspired the painting has been subject to scholarly debate, many believe it derives from Church’s travels through the Ecuadorean Andes nearly a quarter century earlier. The composition reads as an allegory of spiritual salvation: perched atop a dramatic cliff, a brilliantly backlit monastery overlooks a shadowed foreground where a solitary figure navigates a rugged path. This painting was commissioned by Cleveland banker and railroad executive Hinman B. Hurlbut (1819–1884), who also cofounded the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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