Deer at Rest
1860
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1860
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Deer at Rest is a 1860 by Karl Bodmer, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a buck and two does under tall pines. They stand still on a mossy slope. Sunlight cuts through the trees. The buck looks up. The does gaze down. This was painted in America, not Switzerland. Bodmer came to study Native tribes. He brought his Swiss eye for forests here. The animals look calm. That makes the scene feel real. Look up Karl Bodmer.
