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CMA: Drawings
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Sharing public domain works from the Drawings department of Cleveland Museum of Art.
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The Gateway of Mount Auburn, near Boston https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.122
The Gateway of Mount Auburn, near Boston
December 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Italian Landscape https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.708
Italian Landscape
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Faggot Gatherer https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.677.a
Faggot Gatherer
December 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Album with Views of Rome and Surroundings, Landscape Studies, page 02a: "Olevano" https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.13.c
Album with Views of Rome and Surroundings, Landscape Studies, page 02a: "Olevano"
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Sketchbook, page 44: Church Spire https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.rr
Sketchbook, page 44: Church Spire
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Sketches of Heads and Figures https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.658
Sketches of Heads and Figures
December 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Genre Scene of Young Men Playing a Game https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.289
Genre Scene of Young Men Playing a Game
December 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-1798), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq. https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.463
A founding member of the Royal Academy and one of the leading fashionable portrait painters of his generation, Cotes was a pioneer of pastel painting in England. Here, in her marriage portrait, the young Lady Mary Radcliffe is regal in a Turkish-inspired, peacock blue mantle decorated with gold and trimmed with ermine. Pearls and feathers adorn her hair and a décolleté scarlet bodice reveals an expanse of porcelain skin.
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Lower Half of Skeleton from the Back https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.380.3
Lower Half of Skeleton from the Back
December 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Seated Peasant Woman https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.375
Lhermitte's work portrays simple peasants working in harmony with a bountiful natural environment without reference to industrial development, mechanization of farm work, and the depopulation of the countryside. His sturdy images of Champagne's rural life have a sober, unsentimental character in which the peasant figures are neither tidied nor prettified. The artist achieved his most personal expression in his charcoal drawings which first achieved critical success in London where they were exhibited from the early 1870s. By the 1880s, his drawings had gained wide popularity in France.
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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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