Artwork
The Man Was Alone in a Night Landscape
The Man Was Alone in a Night Landscape is a print by the Impressionist artist Lemercier & Cie.. It dates from 1886 and is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Accession no.
- 1926.276
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Ralph King
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Artist & collection
Artist
This French studio made night scenes of quiet loneliness in the 1880s, part of a broader turn toward quiet realism after the bright Impressionist sun.
First a Pool of Water, Then a Prostitute, the Corner of a Temple, a Soldier's Face, a Chariot with Two White, Rearing Horses
Le Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful")
Pélerin du monde sublunaire (Pilgrim of the sublunary world)
C'est le Diable
Et il avait dans sa main droit sept etoiles, et de sa bouch sortait une epee aigue a deux tranchants (And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword)
Meditation
Le château de la mort (The House of the Dead)
Le château de la mort (The House of the Dead)
A Madman in a Dismal Landscape
Hantise (Obsession)