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Landscape with Rider on White Horse

Jean-Achille Benouville1846

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

The darkly shaded trees and turbulent sky introduce a romantic sentiment into this classical or ideal landscape in which a lone rider on horseback gallops through a deep space. The composition is organized into three clearly defined zones that recede from the path in the foreground, to the lake or river in the middle ground, to the distant rocky mountain and sea.

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  • Title: Landscape with Rider on White Horse
  • Creator: Jean Achille Benouville (French, 1815-1891)
  • Date Created: 1846
  • Physical Dimensions: Unframed: 35.5 x 53.3 cm (14 x 21 in.)
  • Provenance: Muriel Butkin [1915-2008] Shaker Heights, OH bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.19
  • Medium: oil on canvas
  • Fun Fact: In 1863, Benouville was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit.
  • Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
  • Culture: France, 19th century
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
  • Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
  • Accession Number: 2010.19
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