Study for “In the Woods, Evening”

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Study for “In the Woods, Evening”

Alexandre SéonLinkedCulture matchlcp-d30dea076bfc

Date
1892–94
Medium
colored pencils on beige laid paper
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
350746

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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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Credit line
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
Provenance
?-2015: private collection, Brussels | 2015-2016: (Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels) | 2016-2018: Private Collection, New York | 2018-2019: (Mireille Mosler., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | 2019-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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