Cleveland Museum of Art
Study for “In the Woods, Evening”
Alexandre Séon
- Date
- 1892–94
- Medium
- colored pencils on beige laid paper
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In this drawing of nymphs holding lyres, Alexandre Séon hoped to depict, in his words, “the spirit of the forest.” He was inspired by fairy-tales he heard as a child about the woods near the remote village where he grew up. By applying colored pencils to a roughly textured sheet of paper, Séon evoked the hazy tones of twilight and gave the sheet a dreamlike tenor. This drawing relates to a painting that was exhibited to critical acclaim at the 1894 Société nationale des Beaux-Arts—an important avant-garde exhibition—but is lost today.
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