Aspects of Nature: The Cliff
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 55 × 82.7 cm · sheet: 64.2 × 89.8 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of John Bonebrake
Accession Number
2003.384
Tags
male
About this artwork
One of sixteen images in the series Aspects of Nature, this lithograph depicts a view from Rivière’s summer home in Brittany. Rivière chose this site for the house—perched high atop gray rocks among pine trees and heather—because “[y]ou could believe yourself at the end of the world there . . . the noise of the winds and the sea, the cries of birds . . . a call of a sailor were the only sounds which enlivened the harmonious landscape, which changed in itself and its colors according to the effec...