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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
An eccentric and cantankerous man, John Quidor achieved fame in his lifetime for paintings of banners and fire engines, none of which survive. Today he is remembered for a series of fantastic, grotesque paintings based on the stories of Washington Irving (1783-1859)-a series whose exuberant style differs from the general run of American genre paintings, which tend to be more understated in mood and realistic in style. The Devil and Tom Walker belongs to this curious group of works. It portrays a scene from Irving's Tales of a Traveler (1824), in which Tom Walker, who was "not a man to be troubled with any fears," encounters the Devil while on an evening outing.
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Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911) — The Gardener
Edouard Manet — Copy after Delacroix's "Bark of Dante"
Honoré Daumier — Don Quixote and the Dead Mule
Horace Vernet — Hunting in the Pontine Marshes
Raphael Lamar West — Bandit Beneath a Tree
Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824–1886) — A Woodland Fête
John Sell Cotman (British, 1782–1842) — Traveler in a Woodla
Albert Pinkham Ryder — Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens
Eugène Delacroix — Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
Théodore Rousseau — The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Wendelin Wick (German, active 1842–1853) — The Forest Maiden
Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña — The Forest of Fontaineble
