● On view now — 201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · verified August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
This series of paintings primarily tells the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac, and each of the canvases depicts the interaction of humans and angels. In three works, angels appear to Abraham, and in one particularly dramatic canvas, an angel intercepts Abraham before he sacrifices his own son. Like another work in this series, Tobias and the Angels, the Sacrifice of Isaac is a narrative about fathers and sons as well as obedience inspired by faith.
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo — The Sacrifice of Isaac
Pierre Charles Jombert — The Punishment of the Arrogant Niob
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806) — Saint Jerome
Peter Paul Rubens — The Capture of Samson
Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis
Francesco Maffei — Rinaldo's Conquest of the Enchanted Fores
Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays — Saint John the Baptist Preachi
François Le Moyne|Laurent Cars — Time Carrying Truth
Jean-Bernard Restout — Aeneas and Dido Fleeing the Storm
Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, 1736–1807) — Laban Searchin
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini — Bacchus and Ariadne
Alessandro Magnasco — Landscape with the Temptation of Chris
