Nudes in a Landscape (1781): Art, History and Details

Nudes in a Landscape (1781) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean-Jacques-François Lebarbier, called Le Barbier L’Aîné (French, 1738–1826).

The work and its context

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

Le Barbier’s watercolor reflects the taste for Neoclassicism in late 18th-century France. In addition to the representation of nude figures, the artist’s admiration for antique art and architecture is also seen in the statuesque group of robed women standing in the central middle ground and the classicizing round temple on the right.

Object facts

• Title: Nudes in a Landscape
• Date: 1781
• Creator attribution: Jean-Jacques-François Lebarbier, called Le Barbier L’Aîné (French, 1738–1826)
• Culture: France
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Pen and black ink and watercolor
• Dimensions: Sheet: 40.5 x 53.3 cm (15 15/16 x 21 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2018.50

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

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