The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Valley of the Stangala, near Quimper

1896

Charles Guilloux

(French, 1866–1946)
France, 19th century
watercolor with black and white and colored crayons
Sheet: 26.1 x 37.3 cm (10 1/4 x 14 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2004.92
Location: Not on view

Description

Guilloux, a modest employee at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, was a self-taught artist who exhibited paintings and drawings in a Symbolist style in fin-de-siècle Paris. Even though he used a combination of watercolor and crayon in this view of a Breton landscape, he was able to mimic the soft velvety qualities of pastel in the luminous emerald valley, the blended shadows on the hillside, and the foreground foliage.
  • Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).
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