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Battle of Poitiers, 25 October 732 https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.957

Battle of Poitiers, 25 October 732
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Portrait Medallion of Pigault-Lebrun https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.59

Portrait Medallion of Pigault-Lebrun
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Marshland https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.291

Marshland
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Portrait of Louis XVIII https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1201

Portrait of Louis XVIII
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Walking Lion https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.196

Walking Lion
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Water Lilies (Agapanthus) https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.81

Monet spent the last thirty years of his life painting the lily pond at his home in Giverny, a small town on the river Seine, just north of Paris. While his initial exploration of the water lily theme (1902-8) produced smaller works more descriptive of a garden setting, the later paintings focus on the water's shimmering surface, indicating the surrounding trees and lush bank only through reflections. Here reflection and reality merge in strokes of blue, violet, and green. Fronds of water plants sway underwater and passing clouds are reflected above. By 1915 Monet had conceived a plan, called his Grande Décoration, for arranging a series of monumental water lily paintings in an oval room, thus creating a continuous panorama that would surround and enclose the viewer in an environment of pure color. That installation is located in two oval rooms in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. Cleveland's painting is the left panel of a three-part variation on this water lily theme. Its companions are now in the St. Louis Art Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Path Near the Pond of Vipers, Fontainebleau Forest https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1053

Path Near the Pond of Vipers, Fontainebleau Forest
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The Oxbow Seen from Mount Holyoke https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.130

The Oxbow Seen from Mount Holyoke
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Sophie Crouzet https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.659

The sitter's dress deliberately evokes ancient Roman costume. However, the white muslin and straightforward cut also derives from earlier English fashions that favored simplicity in contrast to the elaborate, colorful clothing favored earlier in the 1700s. The transparency of her dress also carries political and cultural meaning: during the French Revolution in 1789, costume began to signify political allegiance, a sign of the character of the person who wore it. For women, transparency became increasingly literal, as in the sheer fabric worn by Crouzet, who came from a family of active revolutionaries.
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Study of a Reclining Nude https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.63

The languorous, sensuous pose of this woman is strongly reminiscent of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's popular paintings of odalisques, female slaves, and concubines in Turkish harems. Much of this canvas has been left thinly painted or entirely blank, suggesting that it was a figural study rather than a finished work of art. The French Academy in the 1800s viewed the depiction of the nude as the ultimate measure of an artist's skill. Because models changed poses frequently, students had to work quickly and without embellishment. Here the artist completed only those areas needed to emphasize the contours of the model's body.
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Sharing public domain works from the Modern European Painting and Sculpture department of Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
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