Cleveland Museum of Art
The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows)
Frederic Edwin ChurchLinkedCulture matchlcp-542e08b20ef1
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 173180
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Provenance
- H. B. Hurlbut, Cleveland (1880, as "Monastery Our Lady of the Snows").
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
American Landscape and Coastal PaintingsThese works are 19th-century oil paintings depicting natural landscapes and seascapes from the northeastern United States, particularly coastal New England regions and rocky shores.
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