Alpine Landscape: The Handegg, Switzerland (Q60474584)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
landscape art (Q191163)
artist:
Jean-Léon Gérôme (Q212499)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location of final assembly:
France (Q142)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.262
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: This painting depicts a mountain peak near Handegg, a village just south of Lucerne, Switzerland. Tall fir trees reach upward from the dark foreground toward the light, which illuminates the sky and snowcapped mountains. Rising like church steeples, the trees almost touch the top of the canvas, conveying a feeling of spiritual striving. This expression of romantic, almost religious sentiment inspired by the power and beauty of nature is surprising for Gérôme, one of the leading artists of academic realism, a style distinguished by firm, precise drawing.
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