# Olive Trees of the Riviera

- By: Samuel Colman (American, 1832–1920)
- Date: c. 1875
- Medium: etching
- Classification: Print
- Culture: America, late 19th-early 20th century
- Credit line: Gift of George A. Goddard
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.994)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1919.994/1919.994_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.