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Sharing public domain works from the Drawings department of Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Two Male Figures https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.228
Two Male Figures
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The Buccaneers https://clevelandart.org/art/2489.1923
The Buccaneers
December 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Sketchbook, page 72: Figure Study https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.sss
Sketchbook, page 72: Figure Study
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Liberty https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.383
Gustave Doré is best known for his skill as a draftsman (often seen in book illustrations), as well as for his sense of the fantastic and visionary. In the present drawing, his fluid washes and flowing lines of white add to the dramatic scene of a liberating angel breaking chains. The drawing relates to Doré's <em>Defense of Paris (Memories of 1870)</em>, which treated an event from the recent Franco-Prussian War with a figure representing Liberty. A major difference between the painting and the drawing is that Doré represented soldiers in contemporary uniforms in the painting, but in the drawing of Liberty, he conceived a broader theme in which crowns and medieval costumes evoke an earlier time.
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Verona Sketchbook: Study of hands (page 23) https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.223.w
Verona Sketchbook: Study of hands (page 23)
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Sketchbook, page 47: Studies of Three Faces https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.uu
Sketchbook, page 47: Studies of Three Faces
December 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Sketchbook, page 14: Figures https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.n
Sketchbook, page 14: Figures
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Head of a Woman (verso) https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.95.b
Head of a Woman (verso)
December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Interior of the Pantheon in Paris https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.24
Interior of the Pantheon in Paris
December 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Design for Decorative Hinges https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.586.a
Design for Decorative Hinges
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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St. Louis pendant la Justice https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.286
St. Louis pendant la Justice
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Sketchbook, page 61: Face, 3/4 view profile https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.hhh
Sketchbook, page 61: Face, 3/4 view profile
December 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Cloud Study https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.108
Many English watercolorists of the period were especially interested in capturing natural effects of the landscape, such as cloud formations. Such studies were of particular interest to the French Impressionists.
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Head of an Old Man https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.660
Head of an Old Man
December 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Man in Armor beside a Chariot https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.99
This drawing of a young soldier setting fire to a cart of war trophies may represent a rarely depicted legend about the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), who built one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the time he was 30 years old. Because the heavy spoils of war were slowing down his troops, Alexander set fire to his own cart of goods to encourage his soldiers to do the same. Renaissance princes revered him as a brilliant military strategist. Emperor Maximilian I (reigned 1486–1519), pictured in the equestrian portrait and in the great triumphal car nearby, considered Alexander a distant ancestor.
December 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Star Flower https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.138
Star Flower
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Cloud Study https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.115
Many English watercolorists of the period were especially interested in capturing natural effects of the landscape, such as cloud formations. Such studies were of particular interest to the French Impressionists.
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Officier de Cosaques https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.167
Officier de Cosaques
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Lustheim https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.233
Lustheim
December 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Study of a Flayed Torso https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.26.b
Study of a Flayed Torso
December 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Hercules Resting (recto); Footed Vessel with Handle (verso) https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.52
During a temporary state of madness, Hercules murdered his wife and children. To atone for his crime, he was required to perform twelve labors. In this final study for a fresco of this subject commissioned by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese for the ceiling of his study in his family’s Roman palace, Hercules rests, surrounded by evidence of his toil. The hero’s pose and exaggerated musculature are a result of the artist’s intense study of ancient models and are meant to emulate antique sculpture in the Farnese household and other Roman collections.
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Madonna and Child with Saints https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.72
Madonna and Child with Saints
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Verona Sketchbook: Drapery study with left hand (page 86) https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.223.hhhh
Verona Sketchbook: Drapery study with left hand (page 86)
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Indian Camp, Roberval, P.Q. https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.70
In 1895, Winslow Homer produced 25 watercolors while on a fishing expedition in Canada. Indian Camp, Roberval, P.Q. was painted at Lake St. John, about 100 miles north of Quebec and shows Montangnais Indians at Pont Bleue. Using straightforward visual material, Homer produced an unusual and arresting composition.
December 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Allegory of Christian Belief https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.6
This exceedingly rare drawing is one of only two signed sheets by Liss, who, in spite of the brevity of his career, was one of the most important German-born painters of the 17th century. Here, faith is personified as a woman with bared breasts and bare feet, symbolic of true Christian belief: plain, pure, and without artifice. She has cast aside worldly things-a crown, scepter, and book-and gazes heavenward as smoke wafts from an urn. The long inscription indicates that the sheet is from an album amicorum, or friendship book, in which drawings, poems, and autographs were collected as souvenirs of acquaintanceships. Liss may have made the drawing to dazzle an influential recipient with his inventive interpretation of a traditional religious subject.
December 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM