The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Nudes in a Landscape

1781

Jean-Jacques-François Lebarbier, called Le Barbier L’Aîné

(French, 1738–1826)
France
Pen and black ink and watercolor
Sheet: 40.5 x 53.3 cm (15 15/16 x 21 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2018.50
Location: Not on view

Description

Le Barbier’s watercolor reflects the taste for Neoclassicism in late 18th-century France. In addition to the representation of nude figures, the artist’s admiration for antique art and architecture is also seen in the statuesque group of robed women standing in the central middle ground and the classicizing round temple on the right.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.50