Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011443Landscape
About the Artwork
François-Auguste Ravier was initially influenced by the Barbizon tradition, but as he matured, his work became increasingly subjective and expressive. This highly worked drawing depicts the landscape around Morestel, near the artist’s native Lyon. Rather than focusing on cultivated fields of the region, Ravier preferred isolated ponds, woods, and plains that convey a poignant sense of his solitude and detachment from the Parisian art world. Ravier’s watercolors were carefully considered studio works, distillations of remembered experiences in nature. In his writing, Ravier spoke of how the most beautiful landscapes of all were those in his dreams.
Exhibition history
From Delacroix to Cezanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century. Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD (organizer) (October 26-December 4, 1977); Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (January 9-February 19, 1978); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (April 1-May 14, 1978). Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- François-Auguste Ravier (French, 1814–1895)
- Date
- 1870–84
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache with graphite and traces of black chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.7 x 35.9 cm (10 7/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mme. Félix Thiollier
- Accession no.
- 1920.725
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