View of a Lake

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

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View of a Lake

c. 1830s

ArtistThomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856)

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Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 53.3 x 69.6 x 7.6 cm (21 x 27 3/8 x 3 in.); Unframed: 38.5 x 55 cm (15 3/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: American - Painting
Origin: America
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

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Provenance event

J. N. Bartfield, New York; (Victor Spark, New York)

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J. N. Bartfield, New York; (Victor Spark, New York)

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Year in Review (1964)

American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art

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Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979). Coshocton, OH, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (7 July - 1 November 1979), traveled to Lakewood, OH, The Kenneth C. Beck Center (17 September - 13 October 1980), fig. 3. Mansfield, OH, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape (8 March - 5 April 1981), cat. 1, p. 5, ill. p. 1.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Contrasting the many American landscape painters who conveyed nature's power through raging storms and blasted trees, Doughty emphasized the quiet power of the outside world in his idyllic paintings. Largely self-taught, he often drew from nature and skillfully transformed his detailed observances into soft, poetic depictions of the landscape. This work exhibits Doughty's penchant for inserting small figures in the center of the middle ground. The scale of the two boys on the lake's edge allows the viewer to focus on the expansive scenery, thereby emphasizing the diminutive nature of humankind in relation to the vast landscape.

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