The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 16, 2026
View of the Midwest Plains
c. 1871
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
During his trip across the United States, Bartholdi wrote that “This voyage will probably be a great influence on my entire career, and I am sure that great things will result from it.”Description
French artist Auguste Bartholdi is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty, a gfit from France to the United States in 1886, symbolic of freedom. He also maintained a watercolor practice throughout his career, and created a series of landscapes directly from nature while traveling across the United States in 1871 to identify a potential site for the Statue of Liberty. Here, Bartholdi depicts two figures riding horses before a landscape punctuated by distant buttes, suggesting the freedom he saw as characteristic of the United States.- ?–2020(Galerie Mazarini, Lyon, France, sold to private collection)2020–25Private Collection, France?–2025(Ambroise Duchemin, Paris, France, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)June 9, 2025–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2025.146