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Olive Trees of the Riviera
Samuel Colman (American, 1832–1920)
c. 1875
- Medium
- etching
- Classification
- Culture
- America, late 19th-early 20th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of George A. Goddard
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Like Otto Bacher and Joseph Pennell (both also in thisexhibition), Colman was an avid traveler and madeextensive European tours in 1860 and 1871. He recordedhis peripatetic life in etchings, watercolors, and paintings.In this landscape and architectural vignette of southern France, Colman described an overgrown aqueduct amongst gnarled olive trees. Two figures gaze toward thepicturesque vision of a sailboat on the sunlit Riviera.
