The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Landscape
1870–84
Location: Not on view
Description
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.- Ferrillo, Lynn Boyer. “Two Landscapes by François-Auguste Ravier.” Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 3 (1998): 86–118. Mentioned: p. 86, 92; Reproduced: p. 89, fig. 2 www.jstor.org
- Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/15/04-11/14/04. "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century". No exhibition catalogue.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).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1920.725