In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
With its beautifully rendered trees, grassy slopes, and water bathed in late afternoon sunlight, this painting clearly suggests Nanteuil's love of nature. In 1837 he wrote to a friend: "I often spend several hours . . . looking at beautiful plants with large leaves, cut out like sumptuous lace, tall grasses in ponds, their color silky and the beautiful reflections they make in the water, the little flowers with thousands of colours the ground is embroidered with, all provide me with a source of enjoyment." Although the forest Nanteuil described seems very real, his painting includes a satyr. Seated on a stone near a stream, the half human, half goat mythological figure seems lost in the music he plays upon his pipes. Nanteuil is most famous for his lithographs and etchings; paintings by the artist are rather rare.
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot — Forest of Fontainebleau
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz — Pond in the Woods
Théodore Rousseau — Forest of Fontainebleau, Cluster of Tall
Camille Flers (French, 1802–1868) — Cottage by the River wit
George Inness (American, 1825–1894) — The Wood Chopper
George Inness — The Old Mill
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz — Landscape
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña — The Frog Pond
Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk — A Barn on the Bank of a Str
Matthijs Maris — Beek in het bos bij Oosterbeek
Narcisse Diaz de la Peña — The Edge of the Forest at Les Mon
Washington Allston — A Landscape after Sunset
