Artwork
The Man Was Alone in a Night Landscape
The Man Was Alone in a Night Landscape is a print by the Impressionist artist Lemercier & Cie.. It dates from 1886 and is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Artist & collection
Artist
This French studio made night scenes of quiet loneliness in the 1880s, part of a broader turn toward quiet realism after the bright Impressionist sun.
First a Pool of Water, Then a Prostitute, the Corner of a Temple, a Soldier's Face, a Chariot with Two White, Rearing Horses
C'est le Diable
Le Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful")
Pélerin du monde sublunaire (Pilgrim of the sublunary world)
Et il avait dans sa main droit sept etoiles, et de sa bouch sortait une epee aigue a deux tranchants (And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword)
Meditation
Le château de la mort (The House of the Dead)
Le château de la mort (The House of the Dead)
A Madman in a Dismal Landscape
Hantise (Obsession)