Olive Trees of the Riviera (c. 1875): Art, History and Details

Olive Trees of the Riviera (c. 1875) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Samuel Colman (American, 1832–1920).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.

Object facts

• Title: Olive Trees of the Riviera
• Date: c. 1875
• Creator attribution: Samuel Colman (American, 1832–1920)
• Culture: America, late 19th-early 20th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1919.994

Collection credit

Gift of George A. Goddard

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