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
Hunt studied with the famous French painter of peasant scenes, Jean-Francois Millet (1814–1875), and played a major role in introducing the loose brushwork of advanced French painting into American art. In 1878, only a year before his tragic suicide, Hunt visited Niagara Falls. There he produced a remarkable group of pastels, charcoal drawings, and paintings in which the physical particulars of the scene appear to dissolve into a near-abstract pattern of water and mist.
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Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900) — Niagara Falls 
Alexander Henderson (Canadian, 1831–1913) — Falls of Niagara
John Frederick Kensett (American, 1816–1872) — View of Niaga
James Duffield Harding (British, 1798–1863) — Sketches at Ho
Francis Seymour Haden (British, 1818–1910) — A Salmon River
Augustin Satra (American, 1877–1909) — Niagara Falls
Adolph von Menzel (German, 1815–1905) — Falls of the Rhine a
David Young Cameron (British, 1865–1945) — On the Ourtha
Rodolphe Bresdin (French, 1822–1885) — The Mountain Stream
John Sell Cotman (British, 1782–1842) — Devil's Bridge, Card
George Barker — Niagara Falls
John Sell Cotman (British, 1782–1842) — Liber Studiorum: De
