The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Study for “In the Woods, Evening”
1892–94
(French, 1855–1917)
Sheet: 35.3 x 23 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
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.Description
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.- ?-2015private collection, Brussels2015-2016(Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels)2016-2018Private Collection, New York2018-2019(Mireille Mosler., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)2019-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Bouyer, Raymond. “Le Bilan des deux salons.” L’Ermitage 5 (1894). Mentioned: p. 348 (discussion of related painting)Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Catalogue Illustré des ouvrages…exposés au Champ-de-Mars. Paris: Georges Petit, 1894. Mentioned: p. xxvii; Reproduced: p. 38 (mention of related painting)Malterre, Félix. “Salon du Champ de Mars.” Nouvelle revue international 26 (1894) Mentioned: p. 699 (discussion of related painting)“Au Salon du Champ-de-Mars.” L’Express du Midi (June 11, 1894). Mentioned: n.p. (discussion of related painting)Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David. Alexandre Séon (1855-1917): La Beauté idéale. Exh. Cat. Quimper: Musée des Beaux Arts, 2015. Mentioned: p. 267 (discussion of printed reproduction of drawing)1525–1929: Paintings, Drawings & Sculptures. Brussels: Eric Gillis Fine Art, 2016. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 22
- Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.77