Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Contrasting the many American landscape painters who conveyed nature's power through raging storms and blasted trees, Doughty emphasized the quiet power of the outside world in his idyllic paintings. Largely self-taught, he often drew from nature and skillfully transformed his detailed observances into soft, poetic depictions of the landscape. This work exhibits Doughty's penchant for inserting small figures in the center of the middle ground. The scale of the two boys on the lake's edge allows the viewer to focus on the expansive scenery, thereby emphasizing the diminutive nature of humankind in relation to the vast landscape.
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Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821–1872) — View of Lake Pep
Thomas Doughty — View on the Hudson in Autumn
George Inness (American, 1825–1894) — The Wood Chopper
Gustave Courbet — View in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Asher B. Durand (American, 1796–1886) — Forest Stream with V
Henry Ary|American Painter — The Hudson River Valley near Hu
Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900) — Landscape
Patrick Nasmyth — Near Penshurst, Kent
Cornelis Apostool — The Anio Valley with the Waterfalls of T
John Robert Cozens (British, 1752–1797) — Italian Landscape
Théodore Rousseau — An Old Chapel in a Valley
Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833–1914) — Landscape, after Fra
