Landscape with Rider on White Horse (1846): Art, History and Details

Landscape with Rider on White Horse (1846) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean Achille Benouville (French, 1815–1891).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The darkly shaded trees and turbulent sky introduce a romantic sentiment into this classical or ideal landscape in which a lone rider on horseback gallops through a deep space. The composition is organized into three clearly defined zones that recede from the path in the foreground, to the lake or river in the middle ground, to the distant rocky mountain and sea.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape with Rider on White Horse
• Date: 1846
• Creator attribution: Jean Achille Benouville (French, 1815–1891)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Unframed: 35.5 x 53.3 cm (14 x 21 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 2010.19

A detail from the museum

In 1863, Benouville was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit.

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

View the collection record

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