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Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

Cloud Study

1800s

England, 19th century

Watercolor

Sheet: 5.6 x 15.7 cm (2 3/16 x 6 3/16 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1980.108

Location

not on view

Description

Many English watercolorists of the period were especially interested in capturing natural effects of the landscape, such as cloud formations. Such studies were of particular interest to the French Impressionists.

Provenance
?-1980
Leona E. Prasse [1896-1984], Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
September 9, 1980-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (1981). p. 215, no. 176 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

Leona E. Prasse, Connoisseur and Curator. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-August 25, 1985).

The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-July 22, 1990).

Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1980.108