Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum

Master of Heiligenkreuz, Death of the Virgin, c. 1400, tempera and oil with gold on panel, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Woman, 1635 or earlier, oil on wood, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Albrecht Dürer, Arm of Eve, 1507, point of brush and gray and black wash, brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834, 1835, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso), 1510–11, red chalk over black chalk or charcoal, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Edgar Degas, Dancers, c. 1896, pastel with charcoal on tracing paper mounted on paper and backed with gray board, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Odilon Redon, Orpheus, c. 1903–10, pastel on brown paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Meindert Hobbema, A Cottage in the Woods, c. 1662, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Claus de Werve, Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1364–1404), 1404–10, vizille alabaster, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Jean Antoine Watteau, Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur), c. 1716, red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

William Adolphe Bouguereau, Rest, 1879, oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Romaine Lacaux, 1864, oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514, engraving, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

René Lalique, Lily of the Valley Comb, c. 1900, horn, enamel and gold, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington at Princeton, c. 1779, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Jean Honoré Fragonard, Invocation to Love, c. 1781, Brush and brown wash with graphite squaring lines and underdrawing on cream laid paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Eugène Delacroix, Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest, 1858, oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Jean de Clichy, Kneeling Prophet from the Reliquary Chasse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1409, gilt bronze, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Claus de Werve, Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1364–1404), 1404–10, vizille alabaster, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Preston Dickinson, Still Life, c. 1924, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Auguste Rodin, The Age of Bronze, 1875–76, bronze, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Aniko, Green Tara, c. 1260s; mounted, 2020, thangka; gum tempera, ink, and gold on sized cotton; mount: silk, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Richard Cosway, Portrait of Catherine Clemens and Her Son, John Marcus Clemens, c. 1800, watercolor on ivory in a gold and split pearl frame, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Paul Cezanne, Mount Sainte-Victoire, c. 1904, oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Tilman Riemenschneider, Saint Jerome and the Lion (From the former Church of St. Peter in Erfurt), c. 1495, alabaster, traces of polychromy, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Canaletto, Capriccio: A Palace with a Courtyard by the Lagoon, c. 1750–55, pen and brown ink and brush and gray and black washes over traces of graphite (?); framing lines in pen and brown and black ink, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Paul Gauguin, The Call, 1902, oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Benjamin West, George III, 1783, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

John Singleton Copley, Catherine Greene, 1769, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Rembrandt van Rijn, A Young Man with a Chain, c. 1629 or 1632, oil on wood, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

James Tissot, Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait), 1878, oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.