CMA: Prints

Bullfights: They Play Another with the Cape in an Enclosure

Bullfights: They Play Another with the Cape in an Enclosure https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.543

James McNeill Whistler's "Street at Saverne" portrays a quiet, dimly lit street scene with tightly packed, angular buildings receding into the background. The subtle use of light and shadow exemplifies Whistler's focus on mood and atmosphere, characteristic of his adept etching technique.

Street at Saverne https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.437

The Book of Job: No. 8, Let the Day perish wherin I was born

The Book of Job: No. 8, Let the Day perish wherin I was born https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.573

Paris Almanac, 1897: Tail-piece, Spring

Paris Almanac, 1897: Tail-piece, Spring https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.550

The Garden of the Inn at Dulwich

The Garden of the Inn at Dulwich https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.651

Views of Venice: Campo S. Rocco

Views of Venice: Campo S. Rocco https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.136.17

The Knowledge of God and the Seven Cardinal Virtues: Prudence - Prudencia

The Knowledge of God and the Seven Cardinal Virtues: Prudence - Prudencia https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.471.2

Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France, Franche-Comté: Vue d'une rue des faubourgs de Besançon

Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France, Franche-Comté: Vue d'une rue des faubourgs de Besançon https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1009

Fourteen Celebrated Horses: Adonis

Fourteen Celebrated Horses: Adonis https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.93

Study of a Woman Seen from the Back

Study of a Woman Seen from the Back https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.143

Danube at Walhalla

Danube at Walhalla https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.209

The Fall and Redemption of Man: Christ before Pilate

The Fall and Redemption of Man: Christ before Pilate https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.41.c

The Goatherd Girl

The Goatherd Girl https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.570

Commissioned by Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga, this series of chiaroscuro woodcuts reproduces Andrea Mantegna’s <em>Triumph of Julius Caesar</em>, painted a century earlier. The scenes imaginatively portray the triumphal procession of the renowned Roman general and consul Julius Caesar following his successful defeat of Gaul in 52 BC. Each section of the continuous frieze shows elements typical of these parades, sanctioned by the Roman Senate and described in ancient texts. The printed suite’s frontispiece features a portrait bust of Mantegna, and the text below boasts that the famous paintings attracted many viewers. People who owned sets of these woodcuts often tacked them up to create a decorative frieze. Andreani issued the prints with a sheet of classical columns that could be cut out and placed between the scenes. Two fragments of these columns, colored orange, still flank the fourth scene.<br><br>This special impression of the final woodcut in Andreani’s <em>Triumph of Julius Caesar</em> was printed on dyed silk. The gold highlights, added by hand, make Caesar in his triumphal car appear especially luxurious. In their descriptions of Roman triumphs, the ancient chroniclers Plutarch and Appian each wrote that the hero of honor wore purple robes decorated with gold.

The Triumph of Julius Caesar: Caesar Triumphant https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.102

Woman from the Suburbs of Moscow

Woman from the Suburbs of Moscow https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.301

Six Views of Heidelberg Castle: Yard, at the Entrance

Six Views of Heidelberg Castle: Yard, at the Entrance https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.280.6

Fontainebleau Forest: Woodcutters' Meal (La Forêt de Fontainebleau: Le repas des Bûcherons)

Fontainebleau Forest: Woodcutters' Meal (La Forêt de Fontainebleau: Le repas des Bûcherons) https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.708.e

Baudelaire, after Emil de Roy

Baudelaire, after Emil de Roy https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.248

A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, belonging to the natural order of Amaryllidae and Liliacae: Japanese Lily

A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, belonging to the natural order of Amaryllidae and Liliacae: Japanese Lily https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.282

Piazza Colonna from "Prospectus Locurum Urbis Romae Insign[ium]"

Piazza Colonna from "Prospectus Locurum Urbis Romae Insign[ium]" https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.64.4

Das Malerische und Romantische Rheinland: Creutznach

Das Malerische und Romantische Rheinland: Creutznach https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.697.12

The Distant City

The Distant City https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.364

Evening, New York Harbor

Evening, New York Harbor https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.208

Bethlehem

Bethlehem https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.131

Bacchanal with Silenus

Bacchanal with Silenus https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.515

Madame Besnard

Madame Besnard https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.638

Le Pont de Poissy

Le Pont de Poissy https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.622

The boundary between heaven and earth is obscured in this engraving as an angel descends to crown the Virgin with a simple diadem. Although she is plainly dressed and sits on a simple wooden bench, Dürer portrays Mary as the Queen of Heaven. Her direct gaze communicates her role as an intermediary with God for the sake of humankind. Like his Virgin with the Swaddled Child of the same year, Dürer employed a halo emitting dense striations of light to emphasize the Virgin’s holiness. He considered the two part of a set of three engravings and gave several away during his journey to the Netherlands from 1520 to 1521.

Virgin Crowned by an Angel https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.215

François de Troy, after a Self-Portrait

François de Troy, after a Self-Portrait https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.242

Breaking Up of the Agamemnon

Breaking Up of the Agamemnon https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.225