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Sharing public domain works from the Drawings department of Cleveland Museum of Art.
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A Fisherman's Daughter https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.660
Homer created some of the most luminous and influential watercolors in the history of the medium. A Fisherman’s Daughter, painted in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is among a group of works that represent his first sustained use of the medium. Here, three girls sit on the shore of a sunlit beach and play with a lobster. Their downcast eyes suggest a solemn tranquility to their activity. The life of the local fishermen was perilous; they often spent weeks away from home and were sometimes lost at sea. Thus, waiting was a central part of life for Gloucester families. An overturned boat on the dunes behind the figures evokes the ominous form of a coffin.
February 18, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.437
Ingres became adept at making portrait drawings in graphite when he lived in Rome and needed the income they provided. After finally achieving public success in Paris, however, he made such works only as gifts for friends. He drew this sheet for the sitter's husband, a famous archaeologist, to whom the work is dedicated at the lower right. Ingres’s technical mastery is fully evident in this portrait, which shows no evidence of erasure or correction. Madame Raoul-Rochette, born Antoinette-Claude Houdon, was the youngest daughter of Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), one of the most important French sculptors of the 18th century. Always attentive to fashion, Ingres shows the sitter here in day-wear, sporting a redingote (a coat open down the front) and a dress with long gigot or leg-of-mutton sleeves, stylishly enormous at the top.
February 18, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Moroccan Scene https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.23
Moroccan Scene
February 18, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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Scene with a Road Winding through a Wood https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.547
Scene with a Road Winding through a Wood
February 18, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Sketchbook, page 04: Figures in a Boat https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.d
Sketchbook, page 04: Figures in a Boat
February 18, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Sketchbook, page 13: Bust of a Man in Profile https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.m
Sketchbook, page 13: Bust of a Man in Profile
February 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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George Frederick Watts, R.A. https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.415
George Frederick Watts, R.A.
February 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Italian Sketchbook: Standing Woman in profile & Man with an Umbrella (page 2) https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.422.b
Italian Sketchbook: Standing Woman in profile & Man with an Umbrella (page 2)
February 17, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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The Cowherdess, Eragny https://clevelandart.org/art/2609.1947
This drawing of a peasant girl seen from the back with her bodice cinched at the waist was a study for a figure who appeared in an oil painting, Vachère à Eragny, 1886, and later in a watercolor of a fan painted in 1890. In a letter to his son, Pissarro mentioned being particularly pleased with the figure.
February 17, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Portrait of a Woman https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.443
Portrait of a Woman
February 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Italian Sketchbook: Standing Woman (page 167) https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.422.nnn
Italian Sketchbook: Standing Woman (page 167)
February 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Lobster https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.607.a
Lobster
February 16, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Copy of Van Dyck's Déodat Delmont https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.705
Copy of Van Dyck's Déodat Delmont
February 16, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Album with Views of Rome and Surroundings, Landscape Studies, page 36a: Roman View https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.13.qq
Album with Views of Rome and Surroundings, Landscape Studies, page 36a: Roman View
February 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Un Hebreo, from Christ Shown to the People (recto) https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.13.a
Un Hebreo, from Christ Shown to the People (recto)
February 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Sketchbook, page 46: Standing Male Figure https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.tt
Sketchbook, page 46: Standing Male Figure
February 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Bray Church Yard https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.564
The inscription on the reverse of this drawing, "Bray Church Yard-1807," likely refers to St. Michael’s, the parish church in the village of Bray on the banks of the Thames in the county of Berkshire. The banks of the lower Thames Valley provided the subject matter for many of Varley’s early watercolors. His pursuit of the picturesque led the artist to turn his back on London and its connotations of commerce and industry, focusing instead on the rural aspects of the scene.
February 15, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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Landscape with a Moated Village https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.552
Landscape with a Moated Village
February 15, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Cats (recto) https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.285.a
Cats (recto)
February 14, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Sleeping Field Worker https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.173
Sleeping Field Worker
February 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Figure Studies (recto) https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.153.a
Figure Studies (recto)
February 14, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Verona Sketchbook: Female figure with open book (page 63) https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.223.kkk
Verona Sketchbook: Female figure with open book (page 63)
February 14, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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Arab on Horseback https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.244
Arab on Horseback
February 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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St. Sebastian https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.53
This subtly drawn red chalk study depicts the moment just before the Roman soldier Sebastian was shot through with arrows for refusing to renounce his Christian faith. The young martyr turns hopefully toward heaven as if comforted by divine light. Ribera favored the subject because it allowed him to study the expressive possibilities of the bound human figure. A number of related drawings by the artist from the same period treat similar themes of saints bound in punishment. Although Spanish by birth, Jusepe de Ribera spent most of his life in Naples, where he became the dominant artistic figure until his death in 1652.
February 13, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Group of Six Children (recto) https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.641.a
Group of Six Children (recto)
February 13, 2026 at 5:10 PM